Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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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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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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Humor is a part of spirituality.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
