Desmond Tutu Quotes
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
-
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
-
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
-
Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
-
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
-
I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
-
You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
-
I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
-
I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
-
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
-
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
-
What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
-
Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
-
I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
-
Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
-
It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
-
If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.
-
In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.
-
'Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...''(The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, 'Every hotel has Holy Bibles.')
-
I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
-
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
-
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
