Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
Carl Reiner -
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
Jackie Chan -
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. King -
Love is the one wild card.
Taylor Swift -
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
Bebe Neuwirth -
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
Karen Kain -
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
Adam Brody -
I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
J. Cole -
I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
Ice Cube -
Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
Gary Jennings
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I was born free.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver -
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
Uzo Aduba -
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
Pat Conroy -
My homeland is the portuguese language.
Fernando Pessoa -
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Emily Bronte -
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.
Geoffrey Miller -
We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.
Karim Rashid -
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
Mahatma Gandhi