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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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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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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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
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I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
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If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.
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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.
