Nelson Mandela Quotes
This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country. I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy: - pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own, - and joy that we can loudly proclaim from the rooftops - free at last!
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I don't feel closeted.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
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This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country. I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy: - pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own, - and joy that we can loudly proclaim from the rooftops - free at last!
