Ben Rhodes Quotes

Mandela was a guy who didn't come in and just eviscerate the existing institutions. He sought to co-opt them. He brought white South Africans into his government.

Ben Rhodes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 14, 1977

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We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

Jessie Buckley

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I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

Jennifer Carpenter

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Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Andrew Gotianun

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You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.

John Cornyn

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To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

Michael Dirda

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There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

Michael Finkel

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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.

Misty Copeland

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I wish I had more time to write.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

Douglas Sirk

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My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

Bre Pettis

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Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.

Art Malik

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