Nelson Mandela Quotes
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Quotes to Explore
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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He toss my salad like his name Romaine
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I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
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It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.
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Ex-cons always say, 'You never know what makes the wheels go round until you’ve done time in the joint.' This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.
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I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
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Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
