Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

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• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

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• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

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• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

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• I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

  

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• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

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• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

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• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

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• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

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• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

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• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

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• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
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• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

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• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

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• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

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• He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

  

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• I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

  

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• I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can.

  

  Franka Potente
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• If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Children
  • Giving
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• Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Labour
  • Despise