Alarmel Valli Quotes
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
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The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
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Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
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Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:
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Relax for a moment my Jerry Come out of your dark monastery While Venus is beaming above. Darling, let's talk about love.
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We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.
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Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.
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I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.
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Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
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See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.
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Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.
