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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • You
  • Good Things

• 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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Parents
  • Blood
  • Birth

• My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Loved

• The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Cool
  • Happen
  • Most

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• 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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Home

• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Serious

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• 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.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Period
  • News
  • Fact

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Simple

• Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Need

• When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Sister
  • Young
  • Ugly

• I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Know
  • See

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Better
  • Honest
  • Hatred

• I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Marriage

• To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.

  

  Barbara Bergmann
  • Housewife

• I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Possible