South Quotes - Page 17

• When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.

  Denzel Washington

  Lunch, California, Zimbabwe

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.

  DJ Khaled

  Artist, Jam, Pressure

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• I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Giving, East, Limits

  Source: pursuitist.com

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• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchors, Order, Giving

  Source: www.midtod.com

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• I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!

  Richard E. Byrd

  Peace, Night, Clouds

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.85, Island Press

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• Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Giving, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I've never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it's Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Florida, Interesting

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT TRYING TO MAKE ANY SOCIAL POLITICAL POINT, NOR AM I TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF REDNECKS. I GREW UP A COUNTRY KID AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. I GREW UP WITH PEOPLE THAT SAID CERTAIN THINGS FUNNY AND I PREFORM USING THE SAME LANGUAGE BECAUSE I FIND IT HYSTERICLE. THATS IT. ITS A COMEDY SHOW THAT IS FUNNY AND THATS IT.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Country, Fun, Kids

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

  Al Pacino

  Melting, Pot, Grew Up

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Black, Speak

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.

  Patti Smith

  Real, School, White

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

  Wole Soyinka

  Violence, Students, Accepting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

  Otis Moss III

  Strong, White, Community

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• The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

  Saul Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great fatherland, a dream that existed even before the Spanish conquest, and Simon Bolivar fought for it later on.

  Evo Morales

  Dream, America, Bolivia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

  David Cross

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!". Live comedy album by David Cross, November 5, 2002.

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• He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

  "Hundreds Attend Parks Memorial in Ala". www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2005.

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• A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

  Anne Waldman

  Earthquakes, Cities, America

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

  Steve Nash

  Beautiful, Beach, America

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Fall, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.maryannhenry.com

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• My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

  Zakes Mda

  Play, Language, Has Beens

  Source: geosireads.wordpress.com

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• I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!

  Pauley Perrette

  Mean, Kids, Rights

  Source: www.avclub.com

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