Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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• Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  

  Karen Black
  • Believe
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• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
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• If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

  

  Sam Neill
  • America
  • Want
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• I love women's bodies. I love luxury.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
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• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

  Larry David
  • Wanted
  • Really
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• I hate celebrities.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Celebrities

• You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • You
  • Poor
  • Legal

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

• I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
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• Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

  

  Gay Talese
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  • Group
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• I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
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  • Friend

• Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.

  

  Harish Rawat
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• I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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  • Women
  • Done

• I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Done
  • America
  • Movie

• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Holiday

• D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.

  

  Wale
  • Like
  • Person
  • Agree

• Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)

  

  Jincy Willett
  • World
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  • Reading

• Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

  

  Meredith Whitney
  • Economic
  • Beens
  • Outstanding

• Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Nation
  • Foundations
  • Thomas Jefferson

• I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.

  

  Jonathan Franklin
  • Nation
  • Lived
  • Chile

• No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nation
  • Gifts
  • Attached