"What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism."

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Source : "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, May 12, 2009.

Mark Gevisser

#Men Quotes #Weak Quotes #Ability Quotes

“It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”
“I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.”

Source : "Calvin Harris On Dance-Pop As A 'Futuristic Experiment'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.krvs.org. December 8, 2012.
“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”
“Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.”
“I don't think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It's really those feelings that an audience connects with, I think, at least as much as perfected technical skill.”
“To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.”
“I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.”
“As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.25, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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