Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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δίχα δ' ἄλλων μονόφρων εἰμί
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I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
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I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.
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Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
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I think that I have sold out sometimes.
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'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
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Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
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Truth is a big concept.
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Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
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SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.
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'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'
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I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
