Nelson Mandela Quotes
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
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If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.
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I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
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I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.
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By ancestry, I was born to rule.
