Ela Bhatt Quotes

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• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• 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.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Golf

• 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.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Book

• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Industry
  • Ups And Downs

• 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.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ideas

• The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Love
  • Home
  • Food

• I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Know
  • Details
  • Relevant

• 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.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Done
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Loved

• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Live
  • Pride

• You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Wrong
  • Track
  • Playlists

• 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?

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Believe
  • School
  • Reading

• The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Control
  • Purpose

• I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Journey

• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Free
  • Hands
  • Censorship

• He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

  

  Umar
  • Hands
  • Inspiring
  • Affair

• If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Stupid
  • Needs
  • Hands

• Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

  

  Ela Bhatt
  • Hands
  • Statistics
  • Activists