Saadat Hasan Manto Quotes
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Novels are longer than life.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'
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I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.
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My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.
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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
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I agree, our trade should be fair and not just free. But the next wave of economic dislocations won't come from overseas. It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good, middle-class jobs obsolete.
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Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
