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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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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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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The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.
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The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.
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No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.
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You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
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I don't come from a space where I gush and praise - the world is doing enough of that.
