Individual Quotes - Page 36

• Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

  Kevin Gates

  Detours, Poverty, Environment

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• I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

  Kevin Gates

  Different, Research, Literature

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• Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you've got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that, the other. But it's a big industry that also encompasses anyone in the public eye.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Stars, Rap, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I believe that accessories should bring color and texture to an every day wardrobe based on each individual's sense of style.

  Kate Spade

  Believe, Color, Style

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• There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Source: rutherford.org

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• We all live in a society where someone who lives right across hasn't eaten and you don't know it or you are having problems where you are close to suicide and no one knows; everyone is going about their duty and thinking everything is fine. It's a dual world we live in and there is so much going on and yet it is not so obvious because we all live in our individual worlds.

  Juliet Asante

  Suicide, Thinking, World

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

  David Morrissey

  Thinking, Ideas, Interesting

  "Interview: ‘Walking Dead’ star David Morrissey discusses The Governor". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 28, 2012.

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• I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  School, Thinking, Important

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.83, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.194, Vintage

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• Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Depends

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greed, Saving, Honest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.177, Grove Press

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• Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Cleansing, Social

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.281, Tara Publishing

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• A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Examination, Groups

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Father, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.154, Sahitya Akademi

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• Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Self, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.19, Rajpal & Sons

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• Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Normal, Defence

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• We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Mind, Culture

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Stronger, Groups

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Team, Korea, Europe

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hate, Character, Different

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, Behavior, Responsible

  Source: thegrio.com

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• I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Silly, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Growth, Doe, World

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

  Ray Bradbury

  Way, Groups, Helping

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

  Richard Bach

  Song, Millions

  "Richard Bach's Curious Lives". Interview with Cathleen Hulbert, www.selfgrowth.com.

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