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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa Quotes
A continent, spoken of in its own right.
This page includes a clearly inclusive statement rejecting homophobia as any part of a forward-looking African future, alongside a call to nurture fresh ideas that could genuinely help the continent, similar to Country quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bet there ain't anybody in South Africa wearing a button saying 'Free Compton' or 'California.' They don't give a damn about us, so why should we give a damn about them?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.
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- Nov 07, 2020