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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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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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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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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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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You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.
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I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
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If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
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I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it's good. If it's bad, it's bad. I don't mince my words.
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Here's to the day when it is MayAnd care as light as a feather,When your little shoes and my big bootsGo tramping over the heather.
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A free society can be created only by free men….a good society can be created only by good men.
