Amitav Ghosh Quotes
“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”
Quotes to Explore
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
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What would it do to your psyche if this were your sky? What would it do to the racial awareness of your species if this were their memory of their dirt-bound cradle, before they stepped out into the great emptiness beyond?
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What turns teenagers on more than the Internet these days? If you can get a language out there, the youngsters are much more likely to think it's cool.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
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“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”
