Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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• I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Hatred

• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Look

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Rather
  • Denmark

• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Book
  • Career
  • Feel

• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Fire
  • Create

• I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Friends
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Day
  • Years
  • First

• To seek the highest good is to live well.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Live
  • Well

• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Why

• Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Red

• The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.

  

  Lionel Trilling

• What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Judge

• I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Business
  • Song
  • Singing

• My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Father
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Practice
  • Transformation
  • Disappointment

• Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Voice
  • Speaks

• Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Humanitarian
  • Modern Society
  • Characterize

• You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya