Amartya Sen Quotes

Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.

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• I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Film
  • Born

• I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Fall
  • Jam
  • Eleven

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Time
  • Art
  • Sense

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Future

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Work Hard

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

  

  Alan Bishop
  • Reality
  • Modern
  • Karaoke

• A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Men
  • Drinking

• A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Great
  • Intelligence

• Friends of Bernard's Leach came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram. All these people were, let's say, made available to us by a friendship with Leach. In addition there was a potter's group - what was it called? I think it was called the Cornish Potters Society, but I'm not sure of that. Anyway, they had meetings and we would go with Leach to these meetings and meet other potters, and they would have programs where they would discuss pottery and people would interchange ideas.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Program
  • Meetings

• Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.

  

  Amartya Sen
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