Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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Failure is a part of success.
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I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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Pay attention to how we move things
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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People are not patient anymore.
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The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.
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I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
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When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.