Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.
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It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
