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.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Immigration
  • Form
  • Flattery

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• 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.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Winning

• I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Fashion
  • Myself
  • Designer

• 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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Character
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Life
  • Age

• 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.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Floor

• 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.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • India
  • Mozart

• Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Stop

• Very little is needed to make a happy life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Nature

• There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Passion

• Es más fácil levantar la caída que no dejarla caer. Déjala caer y la levantarás.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

  

  Joe Jamail

• I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

  

  James Hillman

• I'm just a happy guy.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Happy
  • Guy

• It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That's not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don't believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can't do it.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • American
  • Giving

• I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

  

  Anand Giridharadas