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.
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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.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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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.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
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I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'
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For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
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France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to see only the darkest historical aspects.
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There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
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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.
