Nelson Mandela Quotes
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
Quotes to Explore
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.
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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
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It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
