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Miriam Makeba

"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."

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"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."

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Donna Grant

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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Donna Grant

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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Donna Grant

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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Donna Grant

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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Donna Grant

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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Donna Grant

"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."

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Donna Grant

"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."

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Donna Grant

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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Donna Grant

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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Donna Grant

"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."

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Miriam Makeba
"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."

Country

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Miriam Makeba
"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."

Music

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Miriam Makeba
"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."

World

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Miriam Makeba
"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."

Boys

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Miriam Makeba
"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."

Work

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Miriam Makeba
"Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time."

Change

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Miriam Makeba
"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."

Buying

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Miriam Makeba
"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."

Home

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Miriam Makeba
"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."

Age

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Miriam Makeba
"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."

Society

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