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When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
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When I hit 30 and managed to get a council flat in London. It was in the most terrible state, but it was bliss to have a flat of my own.
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Steffi Graf
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My happiness lives in the present. It's my life this morning, this evening, with Andre, my kids.
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
Well, when in 1994 he was elected and I was given the privilege of introducing him to South Africa as our new president and to the world, I sort of whispered to God and said, “God, I don’t really mind now. I mean, if I die now, it would be almost the perfect moment.
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