Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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I just don’t know any other way. I don’t know any different, I only know one route and that’s to go forward.
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I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
