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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I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.
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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.
