Nelson Mandela Quotes
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Quotes to Explore
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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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've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so.
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The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows.
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You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.
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Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
