Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
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Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?
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Kurt Schwitters is the inventor of Merz and I, and aside of himself, he recognizes no one as a Merz artist or an I artist with highest regards.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.
