Nelson Mandela Quotes

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Nelson Mandela

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Choose

• There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Me

• Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• 'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Movie
  • You
  • Best

• The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Flower
  • Sunday

• Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bad
  • Design

• Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.

  

  Elias Canetti

• Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new: Hail Atlantis!

  

  Donovan
  • Dance

• I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan... We will defend ourselves on every front, defensively and offensively.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • People
  • Control
  • River

• Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Power

• I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • Earth
  • Moon

• It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.

  

  Christophe de Margerie
  • Reality
  • Energy

• I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

  

  Eric Close
  • People
  • Up

• My sister is my very favorite person, and I dedicated 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' to her.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Sister

• That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Up

• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Done
  • America
  • Cancer

• A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hellAnd bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Children
  • Bad

• You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Work
  • Different
  • Live

• Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

  

  Sophocles
  • Know
  • Silence
  • Charge

• I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Music
  • True
  • Passion

• I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Brain

• You know, you can only lead them from behind.

  

  Nelson Mandela