Amish Tripathi Quotes
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.
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I don't need to impress children.
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It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
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I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
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Family, nature and health all go together.
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The progress that's made … in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say 'oh let's have less heat and more light,' fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.
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If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
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Provincial Fascism is 'no longer liberation, but tyranny; no longer protector of the nation, but defense of private interests and of the dullest, deafest, most miserable cast that exists in Italy.'
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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
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p. i; Preface
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I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either.
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Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.
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I never thought my ideas would actually get published.
