"By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'"

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Joseph Lelyveld

#Sight Quotes #Firsts Quotes #April Quotes

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
“It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.”
“Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.”
“A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.”
“I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.”
“No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.”

Source : James Denney (1895). “Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary”
“I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.”
“I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.”

Source : "What Diesel's Nicola Formichetti Learned from Lady Gaga" by Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. May 2, 2013.

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