Kamal Haasan Quotes

'Mediocrity is set as a standard...rubbish becomes acceptable. This has been the state of Tamil politics for nearly half a century'

Kamal Haasan

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• We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Lost

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Piano
  • Started
  • Ukulele

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Color

• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Great
  • Art
  • Artist

• The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Afraid
  • Canadian
  • Tuxedo

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Respect
  • Joy
  • Feel

• Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hate
  • Everyone

• I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Small
  • Idea
  • Start

• I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Dresses

• A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Start
  • Finish
  • Transition

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.

  

  John 5 LOSER
  • Important
  • Inventions
  • Electric Guitar

• I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Best

• I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

  

  Emily Oster
  • House
  • Cat

• From the very first inkling of a concept, founders need to gather a target group of five to ten potential users to begin the feedback loop. We all think we know how the market will react to new ideas, but actual users live with the pros and cons of the existing market conditions every day. They are the market experts.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Live

• 'Mediocrity is set as a standard...rubbish becomes acceptable. This has been the state of Tamil politics for nearly half a century'

  

  Kamal Haasan