Vikas Swarup Quotes
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
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In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.
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As a rule people don’t think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
