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.

Nelson Mandela

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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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• 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.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • World
  • God
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Change
  • Simple

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
  • Medical

• 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.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Society
  • Free
  • Past

• I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Culture
  • Faith

• I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Different
  • Action
  • Fighting

• Tech is all about building human connections.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Human
  • Building
  • Connections

• My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Like
  • Young
  • Cheap

• What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

  

  Billy Sunday
  • World

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Needed
  • Iron
  • Curtains

• One says a lot in vain, refusing;The other mainly hears the 'No.'

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Christian

• 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.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Live
  • Free
  • Freedom