Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Good
  • Been
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• You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • May
  • Movie
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• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
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• Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Professional
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• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Model
  • Beauty
  • Conform

• On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Health
  • Like
  • Place

• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • You
  • Insanity

• The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Stop

• If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Live

• I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • People
  • Taken
  • Beach

• My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

  

  Belle Boyd

• There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil Spector.' But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren't exactly funny.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Funny

• I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • Writing

• People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • People
  • Women
  • Age

• You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.

  

  Cleavant Derricks
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reality

• The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Spiritual

• Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • World
  • American
  • Passion

• I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Water

• Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

  

  Alice Glass
  • Idea
  • Purity
  • Purification

• Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Power
  • Faith

• A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fearless
  • Purity
  • Dishonoured