Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ъ, …
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
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Things have to touch me as a human being. I do films that touch my heart.
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I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.
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When fans come to me, and they say, 'You're my favorite singer in rock music,' and I go, 'What about Steven Tyler?' 'No, I like you better.' 'What about Robert Plant?' 'I like you better.' That's kind of weird to me, because I'm like, 'No, dude - Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.'
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
