Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
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All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
