Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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Security services, from Afghanistan to the United States, should be alert throughout the Ramadan period, but especially on the 27th day of the holy month.
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We are deeply concerned, both in our country and here, of the very large number of dropouts by schoolchildren. This is a very disturbing situation, because the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow... try as much as possible to remain in school, because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use.
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Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
