Nelson Mandela Quotes
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.
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I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.
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You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.
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There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
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I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.
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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
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Aucun homme n'a recu de la nature le droit de commander aux autres. La liberté est un présent du ciel, et chaque individu de la meme espèce a le droit d'en jouir aussitòt qu'il jouit de la raison.
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I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
