Nelson Mandela Quotes
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.
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I think that all the time I lived alone changed me.
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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
