Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

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• The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

  

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• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

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• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  

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• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

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• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

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• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

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• I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

  

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• If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

  

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• It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.

  

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• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

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• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

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• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

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• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  

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• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

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• Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

  

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• Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

  

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• You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

  

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• Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

  

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• Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

  

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• Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

  

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• I'm as thick as a plank.

  

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• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • Moment
  • Perfection