Amrish Puri Quotes
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
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Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.
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I am happy to play the bad man.
