M. F. Husain Quotes
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I am a just man.
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What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.
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The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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We were film geeks. We devoured everything: really obscure art films, foreign films. We were the kind of guys that lived at the Cinematheque. But at the end of the day, your favorite movies are like everybody else's favorite movies. Because those are the movies that become a touch point where you can connect to other people.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
