Mohsin Hamid Quotes
Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented – and with a mature sense of the sacred – in Buddhism and Hinduism.
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Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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I was always first in, last out, but not inefficiently.
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Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.
