Ismail Merchant Quotes

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Ismail Merchant

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• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

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• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

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• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
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• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

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• I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.

  

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• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
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• As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

  

  Hank Johnson
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• The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

  

  Lena Horne
  • Chance
  • Living
  • Thing

• The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Failure
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• I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
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• (Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Away
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  • Djinn

• All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Desire
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• I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • Remember
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• I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan

• There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Time
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• We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Problems
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• It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

  

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• You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  

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• This was a very intense game. I thought both teams played their hearts out. In a very charged atmosphere, I thought both teams played well at times and not so well at times.

  

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• Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!

  

  Ed Crane
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• For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

  

  John Milton
  • Air
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• My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Father
  • Lot
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• We're going to have to work our way through that, ... It's going to be a big topic of discussion. We've got Chris here with a short work week, so we've got to do a real good job of evaluating that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
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• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Emphasis