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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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 feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
