Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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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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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.
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Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.
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It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
