Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes
You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.
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We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.
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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.
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You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
