Nelson Mandela Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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It is true that poems and stories generally have only a single name attached to them where authorship is concerned but in many ways they are born of much more than any single individual. They evolve out of meetings of minds, the collective heartbeats of communities, and the shared journeys of similar souls.
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We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.
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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
