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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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.
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I don't have to be glamorous all the time.
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I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
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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.
