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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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good.' Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
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Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.
