Arjuna Ardagh Quotes
Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
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My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
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If you do something to a patient that you would not do to your friends or children, consider whether you are unwittingly replicating a trauma from the patient’s past.
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A lot of people don't realize how severe a concussion injury is. You have to listen to the doctors. You have to be really careful about them.
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All my life I've felt quite misunderstood because of my personality.
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We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?
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Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.
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We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
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If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
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Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
