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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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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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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How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.
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I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
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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.
