Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.
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I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.
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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.
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I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
