Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
Quotes to Explore
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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Love is the one wild card.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I was born free.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.
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For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here!
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What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.
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Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
