Gaurav Dagaonkar Quotes
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
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The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper
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'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
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10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
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The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
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I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music is a much more disciplined genre.
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Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
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The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !
