Arundhati Roy Quotes
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
Lady Gregory
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
G. Willow Wilson
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
Carla Gallo
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
Joanne Rowling
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
Kate Christensen
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
Washed Out
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
Wang Jianlin
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
E. W. Howe
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
Caitriona Balfe
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn
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It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
Lewis Mumford
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It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
John le Carre
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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
Jonathan Sacks
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There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.
Carolyn Forche
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy