Anand Giridharadas Quotes
I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
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I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people.
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If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
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Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.
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Es más fácil levantar la caída que no dejarla caer. Déjala caer y la levantarás.
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Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!
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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
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Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.
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If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
