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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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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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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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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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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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
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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.
