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.Nelson Mandela
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Baltasar Gracian -
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.
Idina Menzel -
I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
Sam Kinison -
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Zoe Saldana -
I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
Victoria Pratt -
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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.
Vernor Vinge -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
Tamora Pierce -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
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.
Vincent Bugliosi
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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.
Salma Hayek -
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
Utada Hikaru -
I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
Sam Jaeger -
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.
Faran Tahir -
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
Abraham Polonsky -
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale -
The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
Marianne Williamson -
I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.
Duncan Jones -
The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.
George Benson -
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.
Nelson Mandela