Satish Kumar Quotes
It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.
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It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.
