Indian Quotes - Page 7

• Action expresses priorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Country, Unique, People

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• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  Vikram Seth

  Language, Should, Novel

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• I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

  Karan Johar

  Song, Religious, Sleep

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.

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• As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, White Man, Years

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• I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

  Loretta Lynn

  People, American Indian

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

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• Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

  Brad Pitt

  Cinema, Pace, Growing

  "Brad Pitt: 'I Would Love to Work in A Bollywood Film'" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2012.

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• My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Heart, Contentment

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

  Ratan Tata

  Young Entrepreneurs, Ecosystems, Differences

  "I have a dream of an India where everyone has equal opportunity: Ratan Tata". Interview with Vani Kola, yourstory.com. February 10, 2015.

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• The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Training, Needs, Done

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• If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

  Vijay Mallya

  Thinking, India, Want

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• I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Adventure, Journey, Stories

  "Highway Diaries: Songs of the Kashmir valley echo in ‘Highway’" by Stacey Yount, bollyspice.com. December 9, 2013.

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• The world is a playground -Indian

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Inspirational, World, Playgrounds

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• People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

  Amartya Sen

  Race, People, Giving

  Amartya Sen (1999). “Reason Before Identity: The Romanes Lecture for 1998”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Country, Book, Writing

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• There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Book, White, Fiction

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• I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.

  Phil Collins

  New York, Air, Years

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• I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances?" I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus.

  Khushwant Singh

  Thinking, Issues, Doctors

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

  Russell Means

  Government, Age, Useless

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.

  George Carlin

  School, Thinking, Land

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

  Rita Moreno

  Color, Black, Thai

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.

  Miguel

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Source: news.spotify.com

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• I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

  Burt Reynolds

  Dad, School, Night

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

  Russell Means

  Colonialism, United States, American Indian

  Source: progressive.org

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• Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what's happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.

  Russell Means

  Nike, Children, Rip

  Source: progressive.org

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