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"I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today."
"Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance."
"I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed."
"I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me."
"Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality."
"Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think."
"But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights."
"Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them."
"Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed."
"You never know how you look through other people's eyes."
"The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people."
"Old age spiritualizes people naturally"
"The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism."
"I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought."
"Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated."
"People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself."
"People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills."
"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous."
"I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls."
"Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning."
