Anand Giridharadas Quotes
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Your crystal? That’s silly. Whom do you think you are fooling? Come on, everyone knows that I threw the baby out of the window. The crystal is shattered on earth, and I do not care. I am no longer anything but a skin, and my skin does not belong to you.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
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I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
