Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.
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There's a lot of things that I think you got to deal with. Hillary Clinton had to put down a rebellion in her own party, then she's going to have to put down the [Donald] Trump rebellion and then try to govern.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.
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It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.
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I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
