Nelson Mandela Quotes

You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

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• The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

  

  Harry Browne
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Constitution

• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Know

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Know
  • Respect

• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Touch
  • Starts
  • Straw

• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Understand
  • Ryan

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • You
  • Times
  • Become

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Bad
  • Parents
  • Day

• And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

  

  Lynn Johnston
  • Character
  • Father
  • Poetry

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

  

  Katherine Boo
  • Help

• I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

  

  Slick Rick
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Should

• You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
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