Twinkle Khanna Quotes

When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself.

Twinkle Khanna

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As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

John Harwood

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Being forced to lose weight is not good.

Jean-Eric Vergne

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

John Tukey

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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Simon Sinek

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Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

Rob Sheffield

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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.

Jon Landau

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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Bob Filner

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I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Anthony Kiedis

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I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Anthony Daniels

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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

Sherman Alexie

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