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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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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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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We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.
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It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
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I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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?
