Indian Quotes - Page 16

• If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Rights, Majority, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Russell Means is quite a legend in the Indian community for what he's been able to achieve. It was a real honor to work with a guy who's been on the front lines of fighting for what he believes in.

  Karl Urban

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.

  Deepa Mehta

  Children, Years, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

  Frank Capra

  Country, Believe, Usa

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Successful, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk.

  John Leguizamo

  Character, Talking, Voice

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.

  Dan Bern

  Two, Spirituality, Praying

  Song: Rolling Away

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• Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.

  Peter Jennings

  Years, America, Problem

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• As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fashion, Husband, Cells

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”, South End Pr

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• What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.

  David Hockney

  Art, Strong, Light

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, House

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• The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

  Bobby Fischer

  Country, Men, Israel

  YouTube Chanel "Peter Wolf"/ "Bobby Fischer tells the truth and nothing but the truth", www.youtube.com. September 19, 2007.

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• Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.

  Hafez Nazeri

  Thinking, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Focus, Growth, Chinese

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• The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.

  George Preston Marshall

  Stars, Player, Names

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• As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

  Parul Sehgal

  Color, Reviews, Critics

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• My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.

  Amit Bhatia

  Sports, Father, Wrestling

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• I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Native American, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

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• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  Alistair Cooke

  Horse, Gun, Land

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• It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Country, Responsibility, Citizens

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• I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

  Indira Gandhi

  Proud, Be Proud

  Indira Gandhi, Pupul Jayakar (1986). “What I am”

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• I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

  A. R. Rahman

  Together, Musician, Culture

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• It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Order, Land, Intellectual

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• He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

  Steve Waugh

  Character, Quality, Want

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• Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.

  Brett Lee

  Team, Height, Matter

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