Hari Kunzru Quotes
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
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The remarkable thing about the U.S. is that for so long we were so big, and we were not heavily engaged. We have to worry about global financial crises affecting our economy.
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I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.
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English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
