Quotes by New Zealander/New Zealand authors (page 4)

"The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"I'm working on just finding a boyfriend right now"

Kylie Bax, Model

"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants"

Martin Henderson, Actor

"As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances"

Peter Snell, Athlete

"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out"

Arthur Lydiard, Athlete

"If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed"

Arthur Lydiard, Athlete

"Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer"

Neil Finn, Musician

"I love being in the studio"

Neil Finn, Musician

"When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British"

Michael King, Historian

"It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection"

Maurice Wilkins, Scientist

"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there"

Marton Csokas, Actor

"It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that"

Michael King, Historian

"I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well"

Michael King, Historian

"Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy"

Jim Bolger, Statesman

"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term"

Jim Bolger, Statesman

"I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it"

Kylie Bax, Model

"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person"

David Kirk, Athlete

"The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts"

David Kirk, Athlete

"People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive"

Phil Keoghan, Celebrity

"I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"

Phil Keoghan, Celebrity

"This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"In America everyone's fast"

Scott Dixon, Celebrity

"As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat"

Glenn Turner, Athlete

"When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'"

Martin Henderson, Actor

"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all"

Jane Campion, Director

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