Nelson Mandela Quotes
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
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Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.
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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
