Nelson Mandela Quotes

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Nelson Mandela

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• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Why
  • May

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Opportunities

• I'd like to do more family dramas.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Family
  • Like
  • More

• As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Humble
  • Hell
  • Page

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Boring

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Mother
  • Best
  • Cool

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Society

• Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Dance

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • End

• To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.

  

  Justin Scott
  • People
  • Mind
  • Family

• As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • Feelings

• However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Reality
  • Moment
  • Commitment

• Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Hurt

• If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Solve

• Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Commitment
  • Endurance