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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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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."
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"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
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"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."
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"Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country."
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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."
Boys
"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."
Music
"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."
Truth
"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
"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."
Life
"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves."
Woman
"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."
Nature
"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."
Home
"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."
Home
"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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