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 think I know it all, relatively speaking.'
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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.
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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
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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.
