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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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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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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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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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
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If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.
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Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.
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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
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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.
