Nelson Mandela Quotes
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
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The cinema saved me from being a delinquent. I could have been, but I didn't get caught up. I never was going to get arrested or anything.
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Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
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I know I probably should be sad about my mother's cancer... but she still hasn't seen The Last Kiss, you know?
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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Let's hope that Ken Oosterbroek will be the last person to die.
