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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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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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 was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.
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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.
