Nelson Mandela Quotes

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Nelson Mandela

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• We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

  

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• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

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• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

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• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

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• Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

  

  Tabitha Soren
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• Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

  

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• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

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• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

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• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

  

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• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

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• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

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• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

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• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

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• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

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• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

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• It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

  

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• Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

  

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• Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

  

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• I've thought about adopting, but I'm a bit paranoid that because I'm gay and disabled I'd be put straight off the list. My mother thinks that I would jump the queue because they like minorities adopting. I have great genes, though, and I would like to pass them on.

  

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• What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.

  

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• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  

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• Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

  

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• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Peace
  • Violence