Nelson Mandela Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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My father was a lawyer.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
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Workers in government, the arts, and industry report that the sheer volume of email they receive is overwhelming, taking a huge bite out of their day. We feel obliged to answer our emails, but it seems impossible to do so and get anything else done.
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Won't you help to sing, These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever had, Redemption songs.
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
