Vinoba Bhave Quotes
When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Quiet is the new loud.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.
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I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
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This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.
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When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
