Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Mahatma Gandhi

• Lies
• Fetters
• Self-Respecting

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• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

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• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

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• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

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• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

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• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

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• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

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• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

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• While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.

  

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• I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

  

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• I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

  

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• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  

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• I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

  

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• The law is cruel.

  

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• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

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• Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

  

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• Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.

  

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• A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

  

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• Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

  

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• To men of other minds my fancy flies,Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies.Methinks her patient sons before me stand,Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

  

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• When I work on a film, you know, I try to get or inhabit the body of the character -from the vision of the directors or how i think the character should be - so if it's a film like SPEED, you hit the gym, you get to do some, train with SWAT People, hehe, but in general, I'm really focused and dedicated, and then in regular life, I don't go to the gym as often.

  

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• Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps.

  

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• Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lies
  • Fetters
  • Self-Respecting