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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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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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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For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
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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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Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.
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I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
