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Nelson Mandela Quotes

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beautiful History Experience Land

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

Looks Haiti Like Hit Bomb

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Understand Come Harm Any Really

So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you're here to continually push forward and move forward. That's where I'm at - I just want to always surprise people.

Time People Youth Forward Surprise

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

People Need Irritating Who Like

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

John Perry Barlow

Law Behavior Personal Laws Still

I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

Sacrifice Writing Think Exercise Try

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

Work Light Sky Texas Landscape

If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.

Michelle Phillips

Me Royalty You Three Years Checks

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

Talent Back Situation Know Young

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

Hands Portrait Done Safe Precious

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Clifton Fadiman

Experience Man Eye You Looks Hiding

I'll never throw away my blue jeans.

Blue Never Jeans Away Blue Jeans

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