"No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident."

-- Ronnie Apteker

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“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passÃ©. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)”
“Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.”
“I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.”

Source : "Tanzania: Mkapa - 'I Do Not Hate Sports'". allafrica.com. May 07, 2011.
“When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?”
“It is idle to await unanimity.”
“When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.”
“The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Donâ€™t listen to themâ€”listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.”

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