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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
Indira Gandhi
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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.
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I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.
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We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.
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I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.
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I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.
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Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.
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[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time I've always wanted to.
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The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would never succeed in remaining pregnant.
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India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Home is wherever I go.
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Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.
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I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.
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I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
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There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
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In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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