Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
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This is my social face,” he said lightly. “Don’t confuse it with the animal beneath.
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My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
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What I have sought is to understand what has been said.
