"As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a bridge maker, do I want my culture to be understood by the west? I have no intentions of doing such things. I'm fine being a little strange to a non-western audience. It doesn't bother me if my book doesn't change a generation of American readers."

-- Sarnath Banerjee

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“If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.”

Source : Charles R. Swindoll (1998). “Hand Me Another Brick”, p.43, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”
“Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday.”

Source : "Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "Glenn Beck Program", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2010.
“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.”

Source : The Concept of Mind ch. 1 (1949)
“America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.”

Source : "Think Again: The End of Newspapers and the Decline of Democracy" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.
“Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”

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