Kalki Krishnamurthy Quotes
Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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Patriotism ruins history.
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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. 'Why diet when you can take crystal meth?'
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house - You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.
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People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.
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Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.
