Divyanka Tripathi Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people.
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Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
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And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.
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I believe that children should not be made to work.
