"I am proud to be an African."

-- Brenda Fassie

“I want to make sure everything has my 100%.”
“I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.”
“Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance”
“I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.”
“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”
“Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.”
“Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do."?”

Source : "Ted Olson: Would FOX like its right to free speech put up to a vote?", chicago.gopride.com. August 9, 2010.
“There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.”

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