Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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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 like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.
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There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.
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Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.
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History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
