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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People do really stupid things while driving.
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Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
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You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered.
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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.
