Chittaranjan Das Quotes

We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

Chittaranjan Das

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• Western
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• I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Always
  • Listening

• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Look

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • Results
  • Innocence

• I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Morning

• I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Death
  • Blessed

• When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Done

• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Done
  • Couple
  • Anonymous

• In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Trump
  • Charity

• The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

  

  Clive Davis
  • People
  • Song
  • Garden

• In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Moving

• I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • Book
  • History
  • Reading

• My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Life
  • Home
  • Gymnastics

• You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

  

  John McAfee
  • Movie
  • Hate
  • Grandma

• Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character

• I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Working
  • Credit

• I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Mind
  • Destiny
  • Consciousness

• My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

  

  Petra Stunt
  • Parents
  • Brought
  • Housework

• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Him

• It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Together
  • Joy
  • Goal

• We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

  

  Chittaranjan Das
  • Destiny
  • Teach
  • Western