Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Fun
  • Football
  • Sports

• I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Find
  • Theater

• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Grow

• It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Better
  • Boring
  • Predict

• There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Think
  • Top

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• Language usage always has a political context.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Political
  • Always
  • Language

• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Trees

• I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Broken

• My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Work
  • Family
  • Doctor

• For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Free
  • Personal
  • Windows

• I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Always
  • Daydreaming

• I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Grass
  • WIld
  • Village

• Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Cancer
  • Stronger

• My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Alone
  • Room
  • Mixing

• I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.

  

  Wale
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Living

• The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Moments

• In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • Research
  • Chemistry
  • University

• I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Wall
  • Rose

• 'You drink only sparingly. Is the beer too thin?''No at all. I merely wish to keep my wits about me. It would not do if both of us became addled, and later woke up in doubt as to who was who.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Doubt

• I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Guy

• In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it's also about who you know.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Great
  • Business

• You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya