Nelson Mandela Quotes
The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.
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In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
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It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.
