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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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
