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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Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy.
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I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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The German soldiers, that is, the workers and peasants, will in the majority of cases have far more sympathy for the vanquished peoples than for their own ruling caste. The necessity to act at every step in the capacity of 'pacifiers' and oppressors will swiftly disintegrate the armies of occupation, infecting them with a revolutionary spirit.
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When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?
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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.
