Punit Renjen Quotes
Gandhi held no formal position of authority. Nor was there an organized army standing behind him. What he did have were his core beliefs and the audacity to speak truth to power.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.
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To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Gandhi held no formal position of authority. Nor was there an organized army standing behind him. What he did have were his core beliefs and the audacity to speak truth to power.
