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

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• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

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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!

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
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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.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
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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.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
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• I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
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• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
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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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  

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

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Great
  • Care
  • End

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

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Earth
  • Environment
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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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  • Man
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  • King

• 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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• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • May

• Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

  

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  • Great
  • May
  • Remember

• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Country
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• 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