Al Boliska Quotes
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.
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I campaigned for Barack Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.
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I watched my wild youth disappear in front of my eyes. Moments of magic and wonder, it seems so hard to find. Is it ever coming back again?
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
