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.
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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 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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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.
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You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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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.
