Amitava Kumar Quotes
Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just 'ignore the bait', but … time for some serious flamefesting!
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.
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At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
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We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.
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We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
