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Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.

At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

If I was a research scientist, I'd want people to say, 'You know what, he's a great research scientist, that Ricky Gervais. He's really good, really good.' You know, I'd go to award ceremonies for research scientists and go, 'Yeah, I really worked hard, yeah.' It's brilliant.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

I've watched presidential debates since I was a teen, and I love it.

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.

Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.