Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I owe everything to France.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
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I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
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I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
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It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
