Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.
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The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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Who wants to eat?! Who the fuck wants to eat?! Go have something to eat! Hurrrrraaaaayyyyyy!
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
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Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.
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. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
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Another day to shine your light and give thanks for all your blessings!
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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
