Nelson Mandela Quotes
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Quotes to Explore
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Talent is very hot.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
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I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
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Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really hard to tell a story while also making people laugh. It's like trying to do two jobs at once.
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Beauty, to me, is not a physical thing. It's a feeling.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
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I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
