Nelson Mandela Quotes
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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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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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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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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Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
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Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.
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George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.
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power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
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I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
