Hindi Quotes

• If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

  Soundarya

  Language, Problem, Should

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• You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

  Kabir Bedi

  Film, Industry, Many Friends

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• A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

  Ismail Merchant

  Halloween, Few Words, Culture

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• Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  India, Different, Might

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• I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

  Kabir Bedi

  Cinema, Want, Faces

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• Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

  Sanjay Dutt

  India, Film, Concerned

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• Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!

  C. N. Annadurai

  Dog, Communication, School

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• So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I forget — so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive

  Ramachandra Guha

  Song, Writing, Army

  Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan

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• My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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• I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

  Esha Gupta

  Mother, Speak, Urdu

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• I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

  Deepika Padukone

  Dad, Appreciate, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.

  Annie Besant

  Men, People, Different

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

  Anil Kapoor

  Awards, India, Bigger

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Hindi naman ako mataba eh. In fact I'm so sexy that it overflows.

  Miriam

  Sexy, Facts, Overflow

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• I am a huge fan of Bollywood movies. Whenever I get time, I enjoy watching Hindi movies. Cooking really interests me, so I also experiment with food in my free time.

  Satnam Singh Bhamara

  Cooking, Bollywood, Fans

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

  Adam Rex

  Stars, Character, Kids

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• After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life Is, Hindi Movie

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.162, A&C Black

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• I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

  Katrina Kaif

  Achievement, Language, Speak

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• Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moving, Catharsis, Doe

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.162, A&C Black

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• I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Mother, Tongue, Language

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• I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

  Anushka Sharma

  India, South

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• I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Native American, Issues

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

  Michael Steger

  Girl, Adventure, Cities

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• We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

  C. N. Annadurai

  People, India, Citizens

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• Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend. I've never known a braver girl," he says.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Littles, Enough

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.659, Delacorte Press

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