S. R. Nathan Quotes
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
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I get depressed at airports.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
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Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.
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I believe each actor is versatile and different, so you can't compare them.
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Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining our negative thoughts and emotions, and developing basic spiritual qualities.
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The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
