Desmond Tutu Quotes

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Humanity

• It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Humanity
  • Daily
  • Dreams

• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Nice

• Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Nice

• I Skype my mum every day. Everyone in my family does creative things, so it's nice to have that support.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Family
  • Support
  • Nice

• I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Friends

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Know

• Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Done
  • Nice
  • Flowers

• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Music
  • Nice

• My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Mom
  • Humanity

• The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Night

• Being nice and competitive are two different things.

  

  David Duffield
  • Different
  • Nice

• One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nice

• I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Tired
  • Almost
  • Knee

• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Picture

• Being a Christian and seeing that white evangelical Christians were primarily the people who put guys like Donald Trump into office made my entire world explode.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • World
  • Christian

• Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Nice
  • Humanity