Nelson Mandela Quotes
I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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The painter
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.
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There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
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I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
