Nelson Mandela Quotes

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Nelson Mandela

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• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed

• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  

  E. L. James
  • High
  • Storytelling
  • Bar

• To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fact
  • Started
  • Vine

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Perfect
  • Desire
  • Universe

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Loved
  • Been
  • Ever

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Music
  • She

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Different

• The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.

  

  Lily James
  • Freedom
  • Cinderella

• Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

  

  Epictetus
  • Freedom
  • Fear
  • Sorrow

• Profiting from being in the minority leads to interesting paradoxes. Rather diabolically, if all traders use the same set of rules, they will end up doing the same thing at the same time and cannot therefore be in the minority.

  

  Didier Sornette
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

  

  Andrew Mayne
  • Ideas
  • Comedians
  • Magicians

• There is no such thing as part freedom.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Freedom