Chanakya Quotes
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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I'm honored and I think the relationship with Ralph Lauren brand has been so long because it goes beyond the face or the guy. I don't feel that I'm a model at all, because I'm not. I'm a professional polo player that endorses a clothing company.
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
