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Quotes by South-african Authors
"One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this."
"I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again."
"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."
"Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas " or your fuel cap " another hard to find item if lost!"
"A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."
"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
"Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it."
"Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything."
"I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me."
"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one."
"If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview."
"It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected."
"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
"And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons."
"An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists - or that He doesn't."
"Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things."
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology."
"Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference."
"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
"A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand."
"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
"In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath."
"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
"It is wise to admit one's wrongs because it creates room for correction."
"If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur."
"Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it."
"A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design."
"Rather be alone, than being with someone who is aloof."
"Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people."
"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay."
"It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight."
"An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant."
"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."
"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."
"This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa."
"Every person deserves a chance to show what they can best offer world."
"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."
"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."
"Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member."
"To gain height, lose all your tall friends."
"Oh! Lord should I forget anything, never let me forget that without you I am nothing."
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