Anand Giridharadas Quotes
Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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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.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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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.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Productivity doesn't have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.
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Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.
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Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
