Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?
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'You,' said Purity, 'have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.''But surrounded by Americans as I am,' said Cooper, 'my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.'
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I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
