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.
Kat Graham -
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.
W. H. Auden -
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.
Zach Braff -
Everything is designed to help you sell out.
Patrick Swayze -
I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu -
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. King -
With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
Cara Buono -
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.
Adam Davidson -
Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
Larry Brilliant
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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.
Randi Weingarten -
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.
Madeline Zima -
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
Rainn Wilson -
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.
Nan Hayworth -
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
Magic Johnson
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I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.
John Abercrombie -
I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.
Penelope Cruz -
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
Gaston Bachelard -
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
Maria Monk -
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup