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.
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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.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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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.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
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You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.
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Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
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Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me.
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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.
