Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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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.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours.
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I'm looking for human stories to do.
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To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.
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The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
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I think that I will continue being an active and restless soul. And I think that what I do which is to help people nurture their potential not only for themselves, but also for the world.
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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.
