Ravi Shankar Quotes
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.
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Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.
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I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.
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Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
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Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!
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I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.
