Kailash Satyarthi Quotes
I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
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Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
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I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.
