Jaiprakash Gaur Quotes
Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and said, 'There is the limit'.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.
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People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
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I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
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Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and said, 'There is the limit'.
