South Quotes - Page 37

• The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.

  Adam Hochschild

  Country, Example, Paper

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York to make it who have stayed closer to home - people like David Joy, Tom Franklin, Sheldon Lee Compton, Wiley Cash, Mark Powell, and Alex Taylor.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  New York, Home, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Children, Made, Knows

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Dream, Art, Children

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• There is a section of our population in South Africa that you can't expect to get integrated in the economy of its own. These are people without skills and that will include young people who might very well have matric certificates, but don't have the skills to be absorbed in the economy. So we need to target people like those in a special way, in a focused way so that they have the skills and the capacity to participate in the economy. That requires special programmes.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Skills, People, Special

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• I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Skills, Growth

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Thinking, Impact

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.

  Robert Englund

  Real, Careers, Mexico

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with.

  Ron Clements

  Reading, Ideas, People

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we had a very, a visual outline of the story. And we heard about Taika from people in the South Pacific that we talked to.

  Ron Clements

  Girl, Ocean, People

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

  Ruth Wilson

  Thinking, Firsts, Useless

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Winning, West

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I had a phase where I had a mustache. There was several times where I had a mustache. I had a mustache in high school because South Asian men can potentially have a great deal of facial hair. So I had a mustache at 14, and then I grew a proper mustache a few years ago. I just thought it would be fun to just have a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fun, School, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and then has denied that he would encourage nuclear proliferation to allies (although he did say so).

  David Krieger

  Korea, Japan, Nuclear Proliferation

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south and mountains so high in some areas that helicopters don't even fly well at a certain altitude because the air becomes so thin. The country has a serious problem of illiteracy, especially after so many years of war and Taliban rule.

  David Petraeus

  Country, War, Years

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• I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

  Randy Travis

  Kids, Church, Littles

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I don't care who you talk about down south, Boosie gonna win. I'm the only one to put out a whole album, with more songs, so I don't care who said what. The fans tell the truth. I got real fans - more fans than everybody, so Boosie gonna win [in Hip Hop Survivor: Down South Edition.].

  Lil Boosie

  Song, Real, Winning

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.

  Pam Grier

  Mother, Black, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in the South Side, and when we would have snow and blizzards and drifts, we would jump off the garage roof into the snow. Now if I'm up on a step ladder and I think I'm going to fall, it's a foot and a half off the ground, but I'm panicked about it. So I'm afraid of ladders and those beds.

  Jimmy Pardo

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!

  Malcolm X

  School, Years, Decision

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Race, Hypocritical

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• How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.

  John Rawls

  Virginia, Together, England

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.620, Harvard University Press

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• I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.

  Brent Spiner

  Mean, Guy, Parks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.

  St. Lucia

  Giving Up, Eye, Games

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.

  St. Lucia

  Growing Up, Australia, Missing

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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