Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.
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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.
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I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
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If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
