Pranab Mukherjee Quotes
As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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Not for nothing did Eldridge Cleaver say that the North Korean police made him miss the Oakland police.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.
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I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
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Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
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As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
