Dayananda Saraswati Quotes
The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?
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My whole life has been one theme of self-sacrifice for my investors.
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My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
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It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
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Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.
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The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
