Ela Bhatt Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.
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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
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It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
