P. Chidambaram Quotes
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.
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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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You can love me or you can hate me.
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We made the Gophers work for it. I don't think it came that easy to them.
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I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
