Anand Giridharadas Quotes

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
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• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
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• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
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• All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
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• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

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• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Dream
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• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
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• For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
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• I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

  

  Christopher Meloni
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• People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

  

  John Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Life
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• Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.

  

  Steve Jobs
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• Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Time
  • Patriotic