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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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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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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I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
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Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.
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Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.
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I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
