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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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
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Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
