K. R. Narayanan Quotes
[I was] not an executive President but a working President and working within the four corners of the Constitution.
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
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Though we feel extremely connected through all this technology, social networks, there's also this disconnect that happens. Because you're not actually talking to anyone. You're not actually meeting them for coffee. To me, social media is about "you". It's like, "Well, twenty people like this thing I said", so that's about me.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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[I was] not an executive President but a working President and working within the four corners of the Constitution.
