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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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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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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What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
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I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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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.