Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes - Page 6

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
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To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
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A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.
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We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
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Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
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Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.
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Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.
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To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.
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You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.
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Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
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A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.
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Most of the people who have verbally asserted that ‘there is no master of pronounciation’ have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is ‘pro-nun-ciation’ not ‘pro-noun-ciation’.)
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Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.
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In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.
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Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action.
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Speaking about work isn’t working.
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Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.
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A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.
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When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*
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A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.
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A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
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There are more writers who read than readers who write.
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To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
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Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
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A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.
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When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.
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Every artist takes their final work to the grave.
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Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.
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Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.
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There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.
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Juice is a poor man’s dessert.
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Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.
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Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.
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Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.
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Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.
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Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.
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Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.
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To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
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It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.
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We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.
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Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.
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A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.
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To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
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Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.
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There is nothing wrong with being wrong.
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Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.
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The fear of failure is a liability.
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A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
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Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.
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The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable.
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If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.
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If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.
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In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.
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Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.
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*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living.
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Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).
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Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.
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We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.
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A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.
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The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.
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