Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Good design should be honest.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.
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Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
Colson Whitehead -
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
