Kamahl (Kandiah Kamalesvaran) Quotes
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.
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I try to keep an even keel.
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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I just love what Nicholas Britell did with 'Moonlight.'
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
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I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
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In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo.
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The way you use the word 'God' does not show whom you mean - but, rather, what you mean.
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I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.
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As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
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I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
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For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.
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I choose to live, not just exist.
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It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here
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Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
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Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.
