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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Any who stand in my way shall be cut down!
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It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
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I don't want to take shots at professional actors, because obviously the great ones are great. But I do think that given the kind of stories I've been telling in my films, it's hard for me to imagine how professional actors would have done better. And it's easy for me to imagine how they would have done worse. Because I think a lot of what an actor is trained to do and a lot of what an actor's instincts point toward is clarification, is always making it clear what's happening in the story, how the character fits into the scene, what the character wants.
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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.
