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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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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."

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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

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"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."
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"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."
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"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."
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"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."
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"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."
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"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."
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"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."
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"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."
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"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
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"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."
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