Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

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• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I love women's bodies. I love luxury.

  

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• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
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• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

  Larry David
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• I hate celebrities.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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• I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
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• Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Soccer
  • Group
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• Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Mother
  • Friend

• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Child

• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Business
  • Pride
  • Organization

• I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

  

  Randy West
  • High
  • Respect
  • Honor

• I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Done
  • America
  • Movie

• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Music
  • Listen
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• My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Men
  • Me
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• In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Science
  • Story
  • Working

• In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Book
  • American

• We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Spiritual
  • Human
  • Hands

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Space
  • Stories

• For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nation

• My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nation
  • Nationalism
  • Devised