Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

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• Imagination rules the world.

  

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• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

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• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

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• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

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• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  

  Garet Garrett
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• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

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• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

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• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

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• Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

  

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• The guest to me was always paramount.

  

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• We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

  

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• I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

  

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• Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

  

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• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

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• Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
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• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  

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• Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

  

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• Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.

  

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• Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

  

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• If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion. I-i-i-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started.

  

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• Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

  

  David Chalmers
  • Life
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• Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spiritual
  • Progress
  • Condition