Ravi Shankar Quotes
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.
Ravi Shankar
Quotes to Explore
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
Bartlett Sher
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Vachel Lindsay
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
R. C. Sproul
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I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.
Donald Glover
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America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.
John Travolta
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These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
Jack Straw
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
Pablo Neruda
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I'll be a resource for him if he wants to use me, he'll have my full cooperation.
Eddie Charles Jones
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The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!
Marianne Williamson
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
Albert Einstein
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However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
William Labov
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The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.
Nina Fedoroff
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.
Helen Keller
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When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.
Mac Miller
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She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
Nevil Shute
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My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.
Ravi Shankar
