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Quote by Miriam Makeba
Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but yo

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change peoples ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time. – Miriam Makeba

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Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I cant do anything about that. – 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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Music
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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. – Miriam Makeba

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Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. – Karl Barth

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When Im bored or tired of being blonde, Ill throw on a wig. Its a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 – all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered. – Sara Blakely

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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are. – Taylor Swift

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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? Youre the same person. Just go. – Nathan Fillion

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You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards. – Heston Blumenthal

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For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’Reilly, about capitalism

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