Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • You
  • Wish
  • Animals

• When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Media
  • Risks

• But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Time
  • Business
  • Future

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Power
  • Myself

• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Me
  • Say

• The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Black
  • Favorite
  • T-shirt

• Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.

  

  Rajneesh

• The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture

• He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Distance
  • Bitter

• He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Makeup

• My library is filled with UN condemnations.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Library

• Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Death
  • Fear

• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Writer
  • Autobiographical

• I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Pain
  • Read
  • Comics

• Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Summer
  • Behavior
  • Clouds

• I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

  

  John Grisham
  • Hope

• Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya