Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
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The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
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I would one day discover the principles of opening your own restaurant were pretty much the same: take care to create an excellent, consistent menu and treat your customers well.
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Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.
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I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
