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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."

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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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"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse."

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"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step."

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"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing."

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"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse."

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

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

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

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"Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student."

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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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"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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"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."
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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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