Gauri Khan Quotes
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote 'tax cuts' on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing– Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said 'Road Runner'.
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Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.
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I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'
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I don't come from a space where I gush and praise - the world is doing enough of that.
