Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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America is a meritocracy.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
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I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
