Wendy Doniger Quotes
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman -
Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
Raghuram Rajan -
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
Macaulay Culkin -
I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
Victor Garber -
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu -
A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
Randy Harrison
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
Felicity Kendal -
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth -
In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
Wayne Swan -
Humor is a part of spirituality.
Zooey Deschanel -
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
Halle Berry -
There ought to be a law against necessity.
E. Y. Harburg
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China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
Warren Farrell -
Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
Sam Harris -
I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.
Carmen Yulin Cruz -
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
Anne Stevenson -
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
Andrew Denton
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I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC.
Joe Scarborough -
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
Ed Gillespie -
Our country needs a new generation of leadership, and I believe that Marco Rubio presents this nation with the greatest possibilities and opportunities to meet the challenges of the next generation.
Cory Gardner -
In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.
Anupam Kher -
My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
Barack Obama -
I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.
Wendy Doniger