Desmond Tutu Quotes
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
