Swara Bhaskar Quotes
In India, we are parented in a way that we get very good values. But the whole culture forgets to tell us to also value ourselves. It's really OK sometimes to take into consideration your own happiness.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
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I had always held everything in before.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.
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Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
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In India, we are parented in a way that we get very good values. But the whole culture forgets to tell us to also value ourselves. It's really OK sometimes to take into consideration your own happiness.
