Akshay Kumar Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
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What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.
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...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.
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People want to see realism in action now.
