Bhagat Singh Quotes
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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I've learned that exercise alone is not enough to stay healthy - it's a whole lifestyle.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
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Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
