Vikram Seth Quotes
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
