Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
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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.
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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.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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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.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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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.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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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.
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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.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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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.
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I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
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Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
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Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
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Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
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I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.
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Our huge infrastructure that we need for keeping cash is very expensive.
