"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

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Source : Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Nelson Mandela

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“My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.”
“It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.”

Source : "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.
“Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.”
“I want to play Wonder Woman really badly. I want them to make the movie of Wonder Woman, and I want to play Wonder Woman so bad. Thatd be really fun.”
“We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.”
“And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.”
“In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.”
“I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.”

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