Nelson Mandela Quotes
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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I surround myself with the best people. I know the best people.
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I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.
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Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
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In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
