Ahmed Kathrada Quotes

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

Ahmed Kathrada

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• Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Support
  • Trust
  • Said

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Peace

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Job
  • Being
  • Ronald Reagan

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Best
  • Dark

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • True
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Great
  • Peace

• Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Society
  • Fear

• My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

  

  Mattie Stepanek

• We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Diversity

• But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. “You mean like incest?” she asked. “Don’t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.” “Like what, Oliver?” she asked, “like just what is it he makes you do?” “The ‘right things’”, I said. “What’s wrong with the ‘right things’?” she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.

  

  Erich Segal
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Said

• What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible.

  

  Eugen Richter
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Independence

• In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

  

  Ahmed Kathrada
  • Death
  • Challenge
  • Actions