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.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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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.
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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 have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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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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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.
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The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.
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I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.
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It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.
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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.
