Leroy Hood Quotes
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Radio is for driving.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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I could have coached better.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check-in with myself, I usually end up on the right track.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
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I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the poem. And I don’t write two or three lines and then come back the next day and write two or three more; I write the whole poem at one sitting and then come back to it from time to time over the months or years and rework it.
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Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
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One of women's greatest values is compassion.
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I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.
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I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more.
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In the end, what counts is what you do.
