Amitav Ghosh Quotes

“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”

Amitav Ghosh

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• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Think
  • Football

• '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.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • People
  • America
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• I would love to work with Matt Damon.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Know
  • Body
  • Trends

• 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.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

  

  Zendaya
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Date

• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Unique
  • Poverty
  • Youth

• I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • Said
  • Saying

• 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.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • May
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Political
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • God
  • Long
  • She

• I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

  

  Katie Finneran
  • People
  • Community

• You want to be the team that is on the field when the last out is made on the winning side. That's obviously the holy grail in the game that I play, and that's what every player strives for.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Game
  • Team
  • Player

• If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Band
  • Sweet

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Commitment

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• “People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Memory
  • Grandmother
  • Recollection