Desmond Tutu Quotes
There is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere?
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.
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A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
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I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.
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A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'
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It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
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There is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere?
