India Quotes - Page 34

• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Sweet, Memorable, Writing

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• President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

  David Letterman

  Japan, Korea, President

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• Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity.

  Narendra Modi

  Commitment, Independence, Village

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• India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Successful, Bihar

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• India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development.

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Team, Development

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• Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

  Narendra Modi

  Diversity, Simplicity, Unity

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• I am seeing that Gandhi is looking through these specs that whether we have made India clean or not, what we have done and what we have done.

  Narendra Modi

  Done, Clean, Made

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• According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.

  Narendra Modi

  Average, Hygiene, Organization

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• I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!

  Bipasha Basu

  Queens, Would Be, Kill Bill

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• India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Kids, World

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• Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

  Bill Gates

  Growing, Newspapers, Readership

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• I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

  Bryan Fuller

  Law, People, Dolphins

  Source: collider.com

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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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• When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can't we do it in India.

  Narendra Modi

  Teacher, School, Japan

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  Abdul Kalam

  Nuclear, Weapons, Today

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• I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, School

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• Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"

  Hu Shih

  Reading, Opportunity, Light

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• India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Forever, Born, Made

  Shashi Tharoor (1993). “The Great Indian Novel”, p.245, Arcade Publishing

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• I feel blessed I can address students who are the future of India.

  Narendra Modi

  Blessed, Addresses, Students

  "Top 15 quotes from PM's Teachers' Day speech". Narendra Modi's Teachers' Day address to 700 school children at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, www.rediff.com. September 5, 2014.

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• China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

  Michael Anti

  Country, Mean, Russia

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• Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Israel, Years

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• In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Lying, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Party

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Mars, Clean

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• The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

  Amartya Sen

  Australia, People, Events

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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