Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I have selective hearing.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.
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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
