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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if yo

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you wont get run over. – Miriam Makeba

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And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – Miriam Makeba

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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and thats the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever. – Ringo Starr

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. – Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. – Friedrich Schiller

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You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock – that youve still got it. – Jarvis Cocker

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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. – Christopher Hitchens

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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