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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.


Oliver Tambo

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OLIVER CROMWELL Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged...
OLIVER CROMWELL A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
OLIVER HERFORD It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
JOHN OLIVER My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday...
JAMIE OLIVER German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everyt...
OLIVER MARKUS If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...
OLIVER SACKS The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to go...
JOHN OLIVER I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down...
JOHN OLIVER In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us...
BARRET OLIVER Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which...
BARRET OLIVER I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not...
BARRET OLIVER It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never ...
BARNEY OLIVER In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic t...
BARNEY OLIVER Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to t...
BARNEY OLIVER No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
BARNEY OLIVER