Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
-
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
-
When you fall in love, you become weak.
-
My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
-
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
-
I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
-
You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
-
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
-
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
-
I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
-
It's so easy to look foolish online.
-
The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
-
I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
-
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
-
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
-
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
-
History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
-
To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.
-
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
-
If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.
-
Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.
-
Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?
-
Our huge infrastructure that we need for keeping cash is very expensive.
