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If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!
— K. Hari Kumar
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
— Aarti Sequeira
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.
— Patricia Briggs
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
— A.R. Rahman
all my life
i have looked for poems
to elope with. — Sanober Khan
i have looked for poems
to elope with. — Sanober Khan
Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.
— Shilpa Shetty
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.
— Bobby Jindal
I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.
— Henry David Thoreau
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
— Anthony F. C. Wallace
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.
— Cary McNeal
you are
so delicious
to my poetic side. — Sanober Khan
so delicious
to my poetic side. — Sanober Khan
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
— D.H. Lawrence
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
— Russell Means
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
— Zadie Smith
The Indian is a human being.
— George Crook
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
— Salman Khurshid
Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.
— Harper Lee
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
— Mourning Dove
Participants in the massacre were later tried in Tucson and acquitted. To murder an Indian was considered no crime.
— Dee Brown
It's all very well going around thinking you're a cowboy, until you run into somebody who thinks he's an Indian.
— Kinky Friedman
As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice
— Craig Johnson
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
— Henry Flynt
Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.
— Sherman Alexie
If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.
— Gerald Vizenor
The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.
— Ismail Merchant
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply Ours.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
— Nelson A. Miles
The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.
— Saul Bellow
I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.
— Heath Ledger
As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.
— Parul Sehgal
When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
— George Crook
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
— Dolly Parton
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ...
— Paula Gunn Allen
Whatever else a father is in this life - cop, fireman, Indian chief - he provides for his family. He
— Harlan Coben
There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.
— Russell Peters
Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.
— Hong Mei
I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
— Zubin Mehta
a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan
everything that is scattered
comes together in words
everything that is lost
comes back in poetry. — Sanober Khan
comes together in words
everything that is lost
comes back in poetry. — Sanober Khan
Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote; "neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I look more Indian when I'm serious.
— Sherman Alexie
The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
— E.P. Thompson
You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?
— Renita D'Silva
I like the Indian casino names - Pechangas - Morongos. They all sound like women's breasts.
— Ted L. Nancy
To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.
— Uday Kotak
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
— Pierce Brosnan
If I began to draw
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan
Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.
— Udai Yadla
Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals
— Slavoj Zizek
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford
They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.
— Ray Bradbury
It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.
— Chetan Bhagat
I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!
— Gayathri Jayakumar
I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,
— Brett Lee
In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The Indian race are waiting and praying.
— Chief Joseph
Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
— Kunal Nayyar
He ( Former Indian Prez, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam) let them touch his hand and in return, touched their lives.
— Andy Paula
After riding like a moron all over the place, observe the face of an Indian when he crashes. He is stunned.
— Manu Joseph
I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.
— Sanjaya Malakar
A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..
— Himmilicious
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.
— Subhas Chandra Bose
My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
— Asif Kapadia
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
— Amit Bhatia
The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
— Swami Vivekananda
The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
— Abhijit Naskar
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
— Sri Aurobindo
To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.
— Mary Brave Bird
I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.
— Roselee Goldberg
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
— Sitting Bull
We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.
— Harold Innis
I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.
— Dilip Shanghvi
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
— Tony Juniper
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
— ASAP Rocky
Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.
— Dev Patel