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I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or opp

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether its subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. – Mira Nair

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I often begin movies with music in my head its a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I dont like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures. – Mira Nair

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I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and Ive done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do. – Mira Nair

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New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, its weird. – Mira Nair

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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do. – Sonny Perdue

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The fallback position in politics is if you dont know what you want to be about, and if you dont know what your vision is, go at somebody else. – Karl Rove

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Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, youre going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasnt – now – and this is the honest truth. – Mel Gibson

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A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.” – Joseph Epstein, Foreward to Fred Shapiro’s Yale Book of Quotations, 2006

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion. – John Burroughs

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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. – Charles Evans Hughes

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