Nelson Mandela Quotes
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.
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I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.
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I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
