Breyten Breytenbach Quotes

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

Breyten Breytenbach

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MistakeBlackMindsOutHereUs

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

Jimmy Cliff

ActorFirstSingerSingEvenBefore

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

MoneyChallengesProblemsCorruption

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

Sue Townsend

ChildStrangeMustBeenPretentious

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

Rodney King

MyselfStressPeaceAngerPeopleMe

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

Jay Kay

StarsPeopleMeThinkPersonMeet

My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.

Doreen Cronin

DogWriteKindergartenTellSecond

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

Colleen Haskell

LoveChildrenBookDesignSeeBeen

Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.

Anwar Robinson

NowMoreWellRepublicPragueCzech

With my skin, I have to avoid direct contact with the sun, so that, combined with my mom being conservative, meant I grew up wearing stockings under shorts and long sleeves under tank tops. It was kind of embedded in me that I was supposed to be covering up.

Winnie Harlow

SunMeMomLongSkinKind

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

William Godwin

ChildLearnOne ThingImportance

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

Philip Johnson

LifeChangeGreatWorldBelieveEnd

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

Richard Attias

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