Jaiprakash Gaur Quotes
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.
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I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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Shadowing is really a great way to learn how the entire TV-making mechanism works. I had the distinct pleasure of shadowing the gifted and talented Allison Anders, who taught me a great deal about the importance of collaboration and trusting the talent around you.
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I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.
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Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. … Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
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So wrote Pater, calling an art-for-art's sake muezzin to the faithful from the topmost turret of the ivory tower.
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Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...
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You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.
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I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don't get nervous in front of them anymore.
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Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.
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You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.
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Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.
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There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.
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In short what I like to say is that the Big Bang says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. It really has no bang in the Big Bang. It is a bangless theory, despite it's name.
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Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
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A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.
