Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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• Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Doing
  • More
  • Talking

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Real
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Important
  • Long
  • Man

• On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Home
  • House

• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Reality
  • Wish
  • Face

• When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• Guys are very simple.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Simple
  • Very
  • Guys

• I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Sound
  • Selfish

• A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Fire

• A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Dreamer

• Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Book

• The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions... For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Rest

• I am a part of all that I have met.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Duty
  • Victims
  • Account

• It's difficult to say no sometimes. I often hear, "They'll really take care of you," or "Someone else is going to take the role if you don't play it." Some of the best advice I ever received was to always ask myself: Am I going to kill myself if somebody else takes this role? The answer is almost always no.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Advice
  • Role
  • Kill

• The downfall of any leader in a sport's team is when he gets carried away with his own ego.

  

  Toto Wolff
  • Team
  • Leader
  • Downfall

• Movies have been great, but theatre is home. I've never been able to compare the two because they are different, special worlds. I'm just lucky to have a place in both.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Great
  • Different
  • Home

• We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Humans
  • Animals
  • Planet

• It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya