Kailash Satyarthi Quotes
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down to one sentence?
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
