Anand Giridharadas Quotes
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'
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My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
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Advice to aspiring models: Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.1
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As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
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The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
