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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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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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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We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
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One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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I opened up for Richard Pryor in 1992. I had a conversation with him. All those other comedians can say what they want about what they did, but I opened up for the man. Paul Mooney and I are probably the only ones that can say that.
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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.
