William Styron Quotes
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.
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I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.
