Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

  

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• If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

  

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• I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

  

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• If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

  

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• Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

  

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• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

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• For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.

  

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• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

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• Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'

  

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• I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

  

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• My personal life is also cinema.

  

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• I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

  

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• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  

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• Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

  

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• It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

  

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• I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.

  

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• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  

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• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

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• You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

  

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• It's about being human. It's beautiful, it's touching, it's acting. It's acting and reality at the same time.

  

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• I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Loss
  • Self-respect
  • Conceive