Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

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• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

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• I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

  

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• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  

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• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

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• I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

  

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• Cricket is my first love.

  

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• Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

  

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• I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

  

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• My highest priority is the safety of all Oregonians and their communities.

  

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• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  

  Hank Aaron
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• Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

  

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• Autumn was falling, but the pineSeem'd as it mock'd all change; no signOf season on its leaf was seen,The same dark gloom of changeless green.But like the gorgeous Persian bands'Mid the stern race of northern lands,The chesnut boughs were bright with allThat gilds and mocks the autumn's fall.

  

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• I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

  

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• The lines on your face are your medals. You've earned them, so why shouldn't they be worn with honour?

  

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• I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.

  

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• I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age.

  

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• If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

  

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• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

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• I don't date Janet Jackson. She is my girlfriend; there is a difference. She is a very special and talented woman who never ceases to amaze me.

  

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• You can't just come into someone's life, make them feel special, and then leave.

  

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• To the West, it seems hardly imaginable that the relationship between man and man (which is morality) could be maintained without reference to a Supreme Being, while to the Chinese it is equally amazing that men should not, or could not, behave toward one another as decent beings without thinking of their indirect relationship through a third party.

  

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• Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

  

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Luck
  • Special
  • Praying