Indian Quotes - Page 29

• While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

  Roland Gift

  Growing Up, People, Calypso

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• Eruption of joy at the fall of an Indian wicket can only mean one thing

  Harsha Bhogle

  Fall, Mean, Joy

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• Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.

  George Harrison

  Hurt, Shoes, Squash

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• Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the
  contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a
  like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers, and monks in early Christian days, will retire into their
  gardens for united, yet silent, contemplation.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Life, Christian, Time

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.29, Gardenvisit.com

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• The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

  Ismail Merchant

  People, Culture, Mixtures

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• I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Play, Half, Wells

  "Public enemies". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

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• Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

  Stafford Cripps

  Real, Party, Differences

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• Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

  Stafford Cripps

  Mean, Government, Differences

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• No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Giving, India

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• It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Self, People

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• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Diaspora, Lucky

  "The publishing world is pretty heinous: Kiran Desai". Interview with Nabanita Sircar, www.indiatoday.in. October 30, 2006.

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• I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Stories, World, Feels

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• West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

  Melanie Fiona

  Perfect, Balance, West

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• Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

  Maggie Grace

  Beach, Hawaii, Los Angeles

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• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Successful, Feelings, Want

  "All rage and heart" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

  Sherman Alexie

  Artist, Thinking, Want

  "Redeemers". Interview with Matt Dellinger, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

  Anthony F. C. Wallace

  Science, America, Digging

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• Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

  Johnny Cash

  War, Drinking, Marine

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• When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

  Henry Flynt

  New York, Artist, Competing

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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• There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

  Rahul Gandhi

  New York, Yoga, Dancing

  "Rahul Gandhi Speech Hits Some Dud Notes" by Tom Wright, blogs.wsj.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  M. F. Husain

  Ninety Nine, People, Stills

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  Hari Kunzru

  Military, Thinking, Fiction

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