Babasaheb (B. R. Ambedkar) Quotes
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.
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Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
