Akbar (Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar) Quotes
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
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I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
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It is important to keep in mind that to learn a language is not simply to learn a linguistic means of communication. It is also to learn the way of thinking and feeling of a people who speak and write a language which is different from ours. It is to learn the history and culture underlying their thoughts and emotions and so to learn to empathize with them.
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Every player, every coach doesn't always see eye to eye.
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Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
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There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
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A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
