Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is an attitude.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
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I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her identity would eventually become inevitable, but those would have to wait until she no longer needed the cloak of who she was.
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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.
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He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
