Nayantara Sahgal Quotes
For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
Quotes to Explore
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
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Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
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There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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Iran humiliated the United States with the capture of our 10 sailors. Horrible pictures & images. We are weak. I will NOT forget!
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we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been
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Rome wasn't built in A.D.
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The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?
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Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.
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If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.
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I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
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For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
