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Nelson Mandela Quotes

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: south african
Birth: July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013

Topics

World America Country United States

I'm passionate about owning a football team in my hometown.

Football Team Hometown Passionate

When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.

Science Eyes Decision Biology Choice

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

Book You Wonder Place Island First

The Triple Crown, or any of that stuff, is not my focus. My focus is on winning. I just hope people can be happy with that.

Hope Focus Happy People Be Happy

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

Blonde Play Serious Brunette Role

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.

Donald A. Wollheim

Space Problems Back Results Flight

There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.'

Moment Face You Fall Go Okay

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

Work Dreams Live Walk Child People

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

People White Know Never First Seen

The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts' bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape. But some are losing bone and muscle but not as much as we saw in the early days.

Good Losing Back Early Muscle Shape

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Richard Linklater

Luck Chance Out One Thing Sort

The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.

Truth People Society Color Someone

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