Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

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• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  

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• All I've done all my life is disobey.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
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• I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  

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• I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

  

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• Jon Hamm is such an amazing co-star. He used to set the tune of the scenes so easily, and in his free time, he didn't mind giving us cues. We picked up a lot from him.

  

  Madhur Mittal
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• To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

  

  Brené Brown
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• I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

  

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• The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.

  

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• It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

  

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• The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

  

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• As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to...

  

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• I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I think that even though we should always welcome allies within the four corners of the United States, we shouldn't limit our allies to the four corners of the United States. I think that would be a grave mistake.

  

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I don't like getting beat up much in films, but Jackie Chan could beat me up anytime. My first influence was Bruce Lee, and then I saw Jackie afterwards, and it was entirely different. When people ask me who I think is the best action star, I don't say Stallone, I don't say Schwarzenegger, I say Jackie. He's my influence, I learn from him, that's why I'm here.

  

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• There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Limit
  • Self-restraint
  • Self-Indulgence