Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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If you're straight, if you're gay - hey, if you're a horse - and I appeal to you, great!
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
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As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
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I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.
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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.
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When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
