Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.
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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
