Nelson Mandela Quotes
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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I'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my kid and talk to her face.
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Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
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Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.
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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
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I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
