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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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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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
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I found when we released Not Your Kind of People it was hard for me to go back on tour, especially when we had some runs that were 7 or 8 weeks in a row and I wouldn't see my family the whole time. It has gotten easier with the internet you know because you can Skype or get on Facetime and connect with your family. It was much harder to do that when we started Garbage 20 years ago.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.
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I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
