Ben Kingsley Quotes

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

Ben Kingsley

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• Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

  

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• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
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• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
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• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
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• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
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• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
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• When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

  

  Questlove
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• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
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• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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  • Our
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• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
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• The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.

  

  Edith Stein
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• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

  

  Ayn Rand
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• I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.

  

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• In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Country
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• I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

  

  Joan Didion
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• Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
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  • Movement
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• There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • True
  • Light
  • Profound