Indian Quotes - Page 15

I feel a quarter Indian.

Martina Hingis

Quarters, Feels

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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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I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Nigel Kennedy

Different, Jazz, Scales

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The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting Indias diversity.

Preneet Kaur

People, Diversity, Community

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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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I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

Christian Kane

Boys, Hair, Oklahoma

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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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I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

Amit Bhatia

My Family, British, Passports

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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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As the Indian economy adds strength to our region and the world, it will also benefit Mongolia.

Narendra Modi

Strength, Benefits, World

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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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Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.

Noam Chomsky

Running, Country, War

25th Anniversary of Coalition for Peace Action in Princeton, New Jersey, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2004.

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The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.

Sania Mirza

Sports, Gentleman, Earth

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Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

Sunil Gavaskar

Dhoni, Decision, Tests

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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

John Milton

Nice, Cabins, Holes

John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.53

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Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

N. T. Wright

Thinking, People, Leader

Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.

Henry David Thoreau

Hunting, Moose, Purpose

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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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The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.

Sri Aurobindo

Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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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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It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.

Thomas Crum

Judging, Firsts, Miles

Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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