Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes
My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I don't like possessions.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
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Nobody listens to mathematicians.
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My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
