Nelson Mandela Quotes
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
Imelda Staunton
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
Damian Loeb
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
Adam DeVine
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
Nancy Gibbs
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Sam Harris
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
D. B. Weiss
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
Edie Campbell
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
Garrison Keillor
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
K. Eric Drexler
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Honestly, 'Battlestar' is a truly unique thing, and it's hard for anything to step up to that. There aren't often shows that are as good as that.
Tahmoh Penikett
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
Wallace Shawn
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
Francesca Annis
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Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through 'a confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building,' not by abridging First Amendment rights.
Samuel Alito
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The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.
Maury Yeston
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
William Cowper
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
Dan Simmons
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Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela
