Vikas Swarup Quotes
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
Vikas Swarup
Quotes to Explore
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
Hanna Rosin
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
Damien Rice
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
Patricia Velasquez
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
Yvonne Strahovski
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
Gary Ackerman
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
Zong Qinghou
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
Patricia Arquette
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
Iqbal Quadir
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The man is king. The man is supreme.
Bobby Riggs
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II
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If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...
Cotton Mather
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
Harrison Ford
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
Vikas Swarup
