Desmond Tutu Quotes

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu

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• I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Media

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Performer
  • Hyper
  • Nelly

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Worry

• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Distance
  • Improving

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Play
  • Judge
  • Produce

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Understand
  • Did
  • Rehab

• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Thing

• A day with my kids is the best day.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Kids
  • Day
  • Best

• My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • World
  • Different
  • Connection

• It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Women
  • Learn
  • Honor

• A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • Beautiful
  • Passion

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

  

  Zach Condon
  • World
  • Music
  • America

• Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Up
  • Air
  • Sun