Aruna Roy Quotes
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.
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A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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We cannot all afford a farm in Cuba or a suite at the George V in newly liberated Paris, and more often than not must strive to forge our clean, well-lighted sentences at a folding table wedged between the baby's cot and the dining table.
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I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.
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The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.
