Satish Kumar Quotes
If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.
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I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
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If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
