Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes
It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that our vital attention fastens more and more on internal things.
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My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
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It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
