Nelson Mandela Quotes
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.
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When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
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He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
