Arundhati Roy Quotes
Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.
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I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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Brexit is actually a step back in the sense that you are going back from being connected to being on your own.
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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this.
