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.
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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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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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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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At no period of human culture have men understood the psychic mechanism involved in invention and technology. (p. 300)
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This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
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The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
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In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
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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.
