Anand Giridharadas Quotes
The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.
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In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
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I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
