Siddharth Katragadda

Siddharth Katragadda (born September 1972) is an Indian American writer, filmmaker, playwright, poet, artist and engineer.

Siddharth Katragadda in 2002

Quotes

Life: A collection of Inspirational Quotes (2020)

• The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals
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• Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor
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• The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?
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• A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.
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• When you have a big problem, break it down to smaller ones first.
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• No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.
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• Religion is god's population-control tool.
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• The greatness of a culture can be found in it's thinkers
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• There cannot be ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.
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• Find happiness in sadness, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.
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• You can hold a man's imagination with your looks for a while. With your smell for longer. And with your character for the longest.
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• What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance.
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• The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.
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• The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains
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• Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.
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• Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men
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• Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.
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• Greatness is the reward for genius...only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.
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• The greatness of a culture can be found in it's art
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• Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.
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• Religion is the quickest way to make people dumb.
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• Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.
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• Marriage is an exercise in learning our flaws everyday
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• A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.
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• When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet
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• The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.
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• Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain....at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.
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• I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.
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• Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children
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• Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.
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• Lovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship' - it's a family.
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• Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.
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• Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.
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• God exists...but only in our minds
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• The God of religion is purely man-made. The real God cannot be comprehended by men.
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• Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.
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• The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more exciting, but never as deep or long-lasting
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• Writing can only be as good as its subject matter.
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• The case for vegetarians - plants cure illnesses (heard of Ayurveda). Animal diets cause most illnesses (heard of the China Study.
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• Remember this: the mother is the one that gets you ready for the journey, but the feather is the road that transports you
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• Never find your value in your bodies, unless you want to be devalued
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• Don't be like a chameleon, fitting into the background... make things around you change to fit you.
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• It's more important to not make enemies than to make friends
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• Someone who lives please others is never honest to himself
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• A boy says to his father: make my kite indestructible. And his father says: son, if you do that, it will be strong, but it will never ever fly. Life is all about making compromises.
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• What you want is always in the past or in the future, which you can only dream of.
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• The coward often takes out his anger on his family because they are the only ones who will not fight back
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• Communication with your kids is a million times more important than disciplining
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• Learn only enough to conquer your dreams
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• Learning is a seed that blossom into a plant and then a tree. BUT IT STILL NEEDS THE SUNLIGHT OF IMAGINATION
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• War sets us back centuries BUT Sometimes, war is needed to set right the course of mankind
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• Health is what you eat... and think
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• DON'T BE afraid to be alone. IT IS THEN you are with the creator
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• Be in a group, if you want to have fun. Be alone if you want to achieve something.
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• I do not see any dishonor in a woman selling her body to support her children. I only see dishonor in the country that has put her in that position
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• The search for truth is often costly, for truth comes at a price
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• Saying there is no creator is like saying the car assembled itself from iron ore
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• Racism is the quickest way to prove your inferiority, not your superiority
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• Living in the past is just an excuse to avoid forgiving
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• Never dam the loves of your life or they will overflow and destroy you
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• Bitterness is living in the past. Positivity is living in the present
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• Every problem has two sides. The easiest thing is to blame both sides on someone else...and the hardest IS taking ownership of your side, and fixing it
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• As long as there is hurt, it's a sign there is love. Once you stop hurting, you love has died
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• In the end, a religion can only be judged by these simple things - how do you treat your women, how do you treat your helpless and how do you treat other religions
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• A stranger is always more interestinG than the familiar because your brain craves for new attention. But remember that it's the latter than care about you.
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• Wicked people have a way of manipulating you SO you feel guilty for their evil. Run when you see one
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• Everyone is born to do something in this world. WE cannot ALL be MICHAEL JORDON or a PICCASsO - BUT WE ALL HAVE A gift. Learn to identify that gift and pursue it with all your heart
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• Life is a crash course for your next one
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• Learn to be your best friend cos there will be times when you ain’t got any
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• Don’t be afraid of being alone. We were born alone and will die alone
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• Live not for food, but for food for thought
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• Is love just a cog in the wheel of the illusion of THE procreation of our species
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• Is love just an illusion in the procreation of our species, then women are the magicians that cast it
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• Youth is a chance to be the stupid version of yourself that you can laugh at when you're older and wiser
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• It’s when you’re losing that your true nature reveals itself
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• It’s when you’re losing that your true nature reveals itself. Be your best self even in loss
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• Parents with a bad attitude can’t expect children with a good one. Fix yourself first.
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• Beauty is the biggest enemy of attitude
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• A country or culture can be best judged by how it treats its minorities
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• Great are those that are remembered for all the right reasons when they’re gone
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• Death is the moment when you stop believing in lies and learn the greatest truth
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• Death is the moment we receive a grade for the life we lived
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• YOUR LIFE IS GRADED...but WE don’t get extra credits for praying— only FOR good deeds
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• Unless you are one with all humans, you are not human
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• If the mother is the boat’s roof providing shelter to THE children, the father is the sail and rudder providing them direction
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• Converting from one religion to another is making the same mistake twice. As humanity gets smarter, the only conversion should be out of religion
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• Blaming others is the shortest path to never improving your own self
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• The Happiness Index of a culture can be judged by its festivals
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• Festivals is where you see the heart of a culture beating
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• Festivals is the coming together of people to form one big beating heart
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• Festivals are like rain after a long hot summer. They bring people together like dancing in the rain.
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• Festivals celebrate the human race, in how we’ve conquered the Earth, the Skies and the Waters, and most importantly, our own collective vices.
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• Every day should be a festival.
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• Make sure that at least during festivals, we are all one and equal as humans.
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• Vanity is the new modern day slavery
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• Men are enslaved by money and Women by Vanity
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• racism is arrogance at the highest level
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• racism is like blind men sitting in a dark room thinking there is nothing outside that room
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• Racism is a broad brush to put down an entire race of people just to prove yourself superior
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• Racism is the lack of understanding of human history
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• Weddings are festivals between festivals
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• Weddings are occasions where couples make promises they cannot keep
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• Weddings are what keeps customs alive
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• Weddings are days when the unwed dream of theirs... and the wedded regret theirs.
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• If culture were a living body, festivals are its beating heart.
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• Happiness is being with your family, with your passions and enough money to enjoy both
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• The country that’s the happiest is seen it the eyes of its children
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• Change others only when you have changed yourself
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• Changing others is easy. Changing yourself is hard.
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• Change is the biggest mind block, but once you cross it, it opens up new doors
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• Change is impossible in a religion that thinks it’s seen the last prophet. Prophets come and go, and we have to change with them
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• I do art because a picture is worth a thousand words
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• I do art because I can’t convey certain ideas through other means
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• I do art because it's my shot at eternity
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• Tolerance is to accept the other even when you know they are wrong
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• Tolerance is to show the others what you think is their mistake, and then let them find their own path, not force them onto yours.
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• If tolerance were bees then its hive is in India
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