Amish Tripathi Quotes
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical - it's so radical for a black woman to think she's going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It's still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
