Nelson Mandela Quotes

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Nelson Mandela

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I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.

Jim Kelly

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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin

FearSailShipSeeingPilotWhy

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

John Guare

LiveHistoryWorldBadBecomeWhere

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

Jennifer Aniston

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At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

Stephen Daldry

LifeSchoolMeRestTryingLucky

There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.

Rodney Atkins

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I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

Jonathan Franzen

PeopleThinkFeelingShameCultures

Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.

Colin Trevorrow

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People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

Bob Nelson

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I don't take any money from my ministry. I'm not on salary. My husband supports me.

Anne Graham Lotz

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In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.

Pola Negri

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I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Philip Levine

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