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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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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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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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.
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This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.
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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.
