M. N. Roy Quotes
A free society can be created only by free men….a good society can be created only by good men.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
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As part of our research, we monitor just about every announced deal globally that is in excess of a billion dollars.
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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A free society can be created only by free men….a good society can be created only by good men.
