Cape Town Quotes

• Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

  Tahir Shah

  Struggle, Adversity, Air

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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Doors, Decision, Secret

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• The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

  William Bligh

  Eight, Years, Lasts

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.31, BoD – Books on Demand

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• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

  Robert Towne

  Past, California, Capes

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• Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Golf, Play

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• I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

  Doris Lessing

  Daughter, Two, Capes

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• Joe [Wright] reached out to me and sent me a treatment, and I said yes on the spot just from the treatment. Within six weeks, I was in Cape Town and there was a script [of Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive'], but I didn't realize until I received the full script that Rashida [Jones] and Michael [Schur] had worked on it. It's a particularly funny episode. Joe and I always looked at it as a satire; it has a lot of comedic elements to it.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Mirrors, Black, Capes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"

  Peter James

  Thinking, Shopping, Two

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I've got two dogs - one's a Jack Russell and she's one year old now, and I've got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there's nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing.

  Lewis Pugh

  Dog, Beach, Years

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

  Rory Bremner

  Cities, Voice, Tables

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• God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Jesus, Blessed

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• And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

  K. Sello Duiker

  Capes, Culture, Towns

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• The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Blood, Vision, Capes

  Source: pneumareview.com

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Learning

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• Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

  Jacob Zuma

  Capes, Towns, Problem

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