Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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The plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
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I don't want people instructing me what to do with my body; I don't want the government to tell me what I can do in my bedroom, with my body, or with whoever I choose to love.
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
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Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.
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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
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I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.
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Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.
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Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.
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I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.
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God grant us patience!
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Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."
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Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.
