Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I think of my novels as entertainments.
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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
