Arundhati Roy Quotes

Modern democracies have been around long enough for neoliberal capitalists to learn how to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy—the 'independent' judiciary, the 'free' press, the parliament—and moulding them to their purpose.

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• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
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• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.

  

  Ian Hecox
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• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
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  • World
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• I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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• Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
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• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

  

  Ralph Peters
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• Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

  

  Adam Brody
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• Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
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• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

  

  Bill Shankly
  • Believe
  • Mind
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• Dream that the lips once breathlessMight quicken if they would;Say that the soul is deathless;Dream that the gods are good;Say March may wed September,And time divorce regret;But not that you remember,And not that I forget.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
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• Modern democracies have been around long enough for neoliberal capitalists to learn how to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy—the 'independent' judiciary, the 'free' press, the parliament—and moulding them to their purpose.

  

  Arundhati Roy
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