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.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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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.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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.
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Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
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We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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You should watch what you say to people.
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I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.
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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
