Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad (Babur) Quotes
Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.
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When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.
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Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
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Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
