Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
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I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.
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It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.
