Nelson Mandela Quotes

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Nelson Mandela

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I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

John Hawkes

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I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

Robert Quine

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The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Robert McAfee Brown

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My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.

John Updike

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I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

Amy Heckerling

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Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ChildrenMyselfMattersMoreFeeding

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

Cheyenne Jackson

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The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Christopher Dawson

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I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

Chris Moneymaker

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My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so warm, generous, and kind-hearted. She never washed her dirty linen in public. She always maintained her equations with people.

Arjun Kapoor

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'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.

Pepa

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