Indian Quotes - Page 35

Dhoni backed Jadeja to play aggressively and backed Ishant to bowl short. I have not seen a better Indian captain than him.

Kapil Dev

Play, Dhoni, Captains

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I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

Ali Shariati

Girl, Prayer, Passion

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I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment

Rabindranath Tagore

Stress, Philosophy, Real

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The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Country, Eye, Men

Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.303, University of Chicago Press

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As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Risk, Innovation, India

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Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody have put India on the global firmament.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

India, Firmament, Business Woman

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In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

Charles Alexander Eastman

Prayer, Unseen, Recognition

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Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

Robert Muller

Attitude, Native American, Silence

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From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

Evander Holyfield

Attention, World, Boxers

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In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.

Robert Burchfield

Mother, Country, America

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I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

Anthony Quinn

Mean, Boys, Names

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I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

Helena Christensen

Ocean, Sharks, Broken

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

Zane Grey

Men, Stories, He Man

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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

Naveen Andrews

Decision, Language, Conscious

"I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Amitabh Bachchan

Emotional, Singing, Hollywood

"Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

Michelle Bachelet

Opportunity, India, Asia

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I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Ana Castillo

White, Want, Brown

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Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.

Aravind Adiga

Pride, Army, College

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When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

Aravind Adiga

Running, Growing Up, Party

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Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

Debbie Allen

Play, West, Prophet

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I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

Lynn Collins

Cherokee, Cherokee Indian, I Can

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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