Anand Giridharadas Quotes
I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
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I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.
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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
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Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
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All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.
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I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.
