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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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"And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film."

"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."

"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave."

"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."

"I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!"

"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."

"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."

"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important."

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