Babasaheb (B. R. Ambedkar) Quotes
For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Live fast, die young.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.
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For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.
