Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'
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If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.
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In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.
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Feminists don't honor successful women. You never hear them talking about Margaret Thatcher. Take Condoleezza Rice. She's a remarkable, successful woman. You don't hear the feminists talk about her or Carly Fiorina or Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
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I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
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The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
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There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
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Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.
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I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.
