Tina Desai Quotes

Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

Tina Desai

• New York City
• Bombay

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• Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Today
  • Freedom

• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • True
  • Consciousness
  • Access

• Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

  

  George Eliot
  • Horses
  • Leisure
  • Afternoons

• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Speech
  • Angels
  • Music Is

• I've argued this with a lot of people in my life. When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. Ask anyone who has been on a team with me who shoots the most. Go back to Seattle and Milwaukee and ask them. The answer is me -- not because it's a competition, but because that's how I prepare.

  

  Ray Allen
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Team

• Rid self of suspicions by contemplating love.

  

  Aelred of Rievaulx
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Rid

• It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

  

  Bob Gill
  • House
  • Person

• Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Important
  • Facts
  • Mood

• When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • Burned
  • Genome

• I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

  

  Bill Skarsgard
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

  

  John Fahey
  • Experience

• Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

  

  Adam Ross
  • People
  • Time

• The opulence and grandeur of a lot of period drama really helps you get into character and appreciate the luxury of good quality. If you're fashion-minded in any way, you can't help but be incredibly inspired and apply elements to your own style.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Good
  • Character
  • Help

• Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Up
  • Black
  • Environment

• If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Sweat

• I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Help
  • Lyrics
  • Figure Out

• I am delighted to be here in these new Council on Foreign Relations headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Council
  • New York City
  • State Department

• I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

  

  Abbey Curran
  • Goal
  • New York City
  • Walkers

• In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Schools
  • Myth
  • New York City

• Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

  

  Tina Desai
  • New York City
  • Bombay