Satish Kumar Quotes
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
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'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
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Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
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Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.
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Being a lead role in a play in Vegas? Like, come on! How much bigger can it get?
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Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
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We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
