Amitava Kumar Quotes
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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I just love dancing.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.
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To the world,You may be just another girl.But to me,Baby, you are the world.
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I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.
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My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
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I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.
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America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.
