Nelson Mandela Quotes
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?Nelson Mandela
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith -
When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
Famke Janssen -
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
Patrick Collison -
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz -
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci -
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson -
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
Laura Schlessinger -
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor Swift -
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
Edmund Hillary
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
Christine Tsai -
We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
Marta Vieira da Silva -
In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
Amar'e Stoudemire -
My guitar was a loyal person to me.
Dave Mustaine Metallica -
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken -
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Nelson Mandela