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I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

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• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Heart
  • Me
  • Desire

• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Today
  • Political
  • Politics

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Fear
  • Support
  • Eyes

• I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Want
  • Feel

• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Why
  • Science
  • Learn

• I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Long
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• My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Mother
  • Child
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• The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Best
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  • Final

• Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Black
  • Couple
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• I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Trying
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• My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
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• An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Life
  • Great
  • Age

• That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Then in my heart a fear Cried out, 'A life - why, beautiful, why dead!' It was a mite that held itself most dear, So small I could have drowned it with a tear.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Today
  • Earth

• I have two much-beloved stovetop espresso pots at home, plus a couple French presses I couldn't resist buying because they were so pretty. If I had to imbibe at Starbucks, I'd want a mocha with an extra shot.

  

  Emma Holly
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Couple

• I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set

  

  J. Cole
  • Done
  • Son
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• We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Judging
  • Christianity
  • Buddhism

• I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

  

  Kiran Desai