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• Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Different
  • Today

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Thanks
  • Countries
  • Prophet

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Mystery

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Water

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Discipline
  • Healthy
  • Clothes

• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Work
  • Win

• I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

  

  David Duval
  • Happy
  • Success

• I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Time
  • Culture

• Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Important
  • Breakfast

• I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

  

  Max Richter
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Rest

• We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

  

  Eileen Gray
  • Artists
  • Ask

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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