Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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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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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
