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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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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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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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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I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.
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God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.
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Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
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The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.
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The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
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Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.
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The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
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Music stops you from thinking.
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As we deliver airplanes and we enable global travel and global cargo delivery, it provides overall economic growth around the world as well.
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I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
