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 love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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 remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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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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The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.
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I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
