Nelson Mandela Quotes
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Quotes to Explore
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
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We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer. The skeleton of our complete freedom is already formed. The flesh and the clothing are lacking; we will create them.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
