Nelson Mandela Quotes

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Nelson Mandela

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ChildrenTimeWifeRestMoreRetire

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

Joan D. Vinge

WorldRunOutSystemOwnWeight

Every American has the freedom to choose a particular lifestyle, but that doesn't mean every American has to embrace a particular lifestyle as equally worthy.

Ander Crenshaw

FreedomAmericanChooseLifestyle

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Jeffrey Deitch

ArtWorldTransformationPresentLos

In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth.

Michael Eric Dyson

TruthYouPersonNothingMinds

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.

Siri Hustvedt

PerspectiveEnvironmentChangesLived

Drag will always find a way to be weird.

Trixie Mattel

WeirdFindWillWayAlwaysDrag

I was a hairdresser's assistant. I used to get 20p tips for washing an old woman's hair. I used to get there at 8 A.M., leave at 6 P.M. and get £10.

Russell Tovey

WomanHairOldLeaveUsedGet

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Mohsin Hamid

Growing UpBoatThinkFriendsYou

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Joyce Brothers

RelationshipDoingFeelingPossible

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.

Joshua Michael Stern

PositiveCuriousPeopleLookingYou

My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.

Josh Tillman

PeopleMeWritingSongSomeoneGive

All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

Craig Brown

HumblePeopleSeemHowAboutBrag

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