Ravi Shankar Quotes

I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

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• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Racism
  • Mission

• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • High
  • Morning
  • Cost

• When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Think

• We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Thought
  • Flying
  • Now

• I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Win

• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • City
  • Gun

• Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Night
  • Know
  • Born

• I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Important
  • Long
  • Question

• The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Stressful

• I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Power
  • War
  • Action

• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Man
  • Famous
  • Martyrdom

• If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • Technology
  • Aging
  • Gene

• My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• The intellectual world of my time alienated me intellectually. It was a Babel of false principles and blind cravings, a zoological garden of the mind, and I had no desire to be one of the beasts. —George Santayana

  

  Charley Johnson
  • Mind
  • Principles
  • Intellectual

• How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Lead

• I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Actually
  • Programme
  • Woodstock