Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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Lawyers can make the worse appear the better cause, as though they were fresh from Leontine schools, and have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
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I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.
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I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic.
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I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
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If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
