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Quotes by South-african Authors
"Now I don't know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I know I'd rather go down Brickmaker's Kloof on a bicycle with no brakes! Driving any car at that speed in anything other than an expensive German luxury car on a long, straight autobahn is enough of a risk (let alone the risk of hitting anything) " but if you try that with a Beetle and add a light crosswind, factor in some rubber peeling off your tire, and you'll more than likely find yourself dancing alone in a dark corner without any music."
"Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set."
"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
"God has been FAITHFUL to me, in Him I have FAITH."
"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."
"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
"Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to."
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
"If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview."
"They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen."
"There is nothing wrong with being wrong."
"Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go."
"Without forgiveness, there's no future."
"I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true."
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
"I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it's not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him."
"To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more."
"Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed."
"I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true."
"A realist is a slave to reality."
"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."
"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."
"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that."
"Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy."
"I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me."
"I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way."
"I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet."
"Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do not 'toe-the-line' and 'act straight'. I don't think parents who do such things consider for a moment the kind of emotional damage they are doing to their children - or thinking beyond their own feelings about the situation - which will not change or go away simply because of their denial."
"The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other."
"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"
"When you understand the power of praise, you can't waste precious time on cursing the enemy, but rather be steadfast in praising God for the guaranteed victories. After all there is no essence in fighting battles that are won already."
"As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country."
"One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible."
"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
"I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark."
"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
"Nothing is free' asserts two things. Both assertions are true."
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
"But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented."
"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society."
"Never commit to what you are not willing to do."
"The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?"
"We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!"
"So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country."
"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."
"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."
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