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" Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan. "
Kamal Haasan
Too
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" Once you attain stardom, you lose that finer touch with society. When you are a man on the street, you get to know every vibration. But once you attain this status, more than you, people become self-conscious by your presence. "
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" Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people. "
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" Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted. "
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" The disgraces I suffer should be attributed to me, but the praises that I get go to my family and teachers. It is they who decided what I would become. "
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" All stars are businessmen. Once you decide to become a star, you are talking about money, fame, and being successful. "
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" There is a buffet of ideologies for me to choose from. I've been a fan of certain communist and socialist ideals. Some have failed, some have succeeded. I've lived long enough to understand where all they failed. "
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