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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My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
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In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.
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'In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.'
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There is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere?
