Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.
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When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.
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I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
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I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.
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Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
