Stephen McCauley Quotes
I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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You are what you eat, and you make what you hear.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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Acting takes so much energy.
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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
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I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.
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What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.
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If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.
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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.
