Rachel Kushner Quotes
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
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My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline.
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.
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I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
