Anand Giridharadas Quotes

America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.

Anand Giridharadas

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Influence
  • Will

• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • America
  • Tomorrow
  • Stand

• The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Tyranny

• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • America
  • Problems
  • Jamaica

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Slavery

• President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • America
  • Energy

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • America
  • Never
  • Enthusiastic

• Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Power
  • America
  • Hope

• Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Country
  • America

• The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Family
  • Love
  • May

• Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Way
  • Ends
  • Lines

• I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Done

• America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • America