Nelson Mandela Quotes
Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Women drive box office.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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The two don't necessarily translate, especially if you're a prize fighter: you've fought all your life, you've fought all these fights, and now you're trying to do a movie. You see that happen a lot - a lot of professional fighters don't necessarily make it so well into the movie world.
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For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
