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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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey . . . it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.
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For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.
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We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.
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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.
