Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'
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I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
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There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
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Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
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The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
