Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.Mahatma Gandhi
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen -
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell -
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
Carl Honore -
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
Randi Weingarten -
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
Lake Bell -
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West -
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass -
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
Najib Mikati -
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine -
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
Oprah Winfrey -
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
Laura Carmichael -
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter -
Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
Gary Ross -
I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.
David Sedaris
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I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.
Jimmy Buffett -
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor -
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.
Albert Camus -
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
Mahatma Gandhi