Anjan Sundaram Quotes

Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.

Anjan Sundaram

• War
• Society
• Kind
• Purity
• Permanently

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• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

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  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

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• Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

  

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• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Everything
  • Something
  • Once

• I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Like
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• Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
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• As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Single
  • Training

• A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • City
  • Morning

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
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  • Movement

• I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Roles
  • Warrior
  • Pursuing

• Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Home
  • Power

• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  

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  • Gay

• The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Death
  • Reading
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• I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

  

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  • God
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• As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

  

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• If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

  

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  • Long

• It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

  

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• Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

  

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  • War
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• Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Life
  • Basketball
  • More

• All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Study
  • Genius
  • Subject

• (I feel) a lot better, a lot better I got a really good corky right in the middle of my quad and staying up all Friday night and Saturday has definitely made it better.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Up
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• Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.

  

  Anjan Sundaram
  • War
  • Society
  • Kind