Arundhati Roy Quotes
The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of Modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade zoo during the NATO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.
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Two headlights shine through the sleepless nightand I will get you, get you aloneYour name has echoed through my mindAnd I just think you should, think you should knowThat nothing safe is worth the driveAnd I will follow you follow you homeI'll follow you follow you home
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Our ways go wide and I know not whither, But my song will search through the worlds for you, Till the Seven Seas waste and the Seven Stars wither, And the dream of the heart comes true.I am out to the roads and the long, long questing, On dark tides driven, on great winds blown: I pass the runs of the world, unresting, I sail to the unknown.
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Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
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The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of Modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade zoo during the NATO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs.
