Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
Natalie Dormer
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
Zadie Smith
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
Hans Blix
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
Yann Martel
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
Rahm Emanuel
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
Vikram Seth
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
Om Puri
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I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
Baba Kalyani
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins
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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Diogenes
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I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
William Wyler
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Octavian’s patron, Apollo, the god of reason, had defeated Antony’s patron, Hercules, the symbol of might.
Barry S. Strauss
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The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.
Molly Ivins
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An honest man is respected by all parties.
William Hazlitt
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
Mahatma Gandhi
