Bharati Mukherjee Quotes
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.
