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've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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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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I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.
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Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.
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I guess somewhere along the way He must have let us all out to play Turned his back, and all God's children Crept out the back door
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Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative.
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We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
