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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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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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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My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
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Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
