Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
In order to ensure long-term investment, it is important to make infrastructure as transparent and as bankable as possible - should be a win-win for all.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It's going to unleash growth.
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In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family. I had no idea what life was going to be like as a North Korean refugee. But I soon learned it's not only extremely difficult, it's also very dangerous, since North Korean refugees are considered in China as illegal migrants.
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A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.
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If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.
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In order to ensure long-term investment, it is important to make infrastructure as transparent and as bankable as possible - should be a win-win for all.
