Anand Giridharadas Quotes

As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.

Anand Giridharadas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 27, 1981

Topics

FamilyGrowing UpPoliticalTalking

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Matt Damon

YourselfBe YourselfThinkBetter

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

Joshua Waitzkin

LifeBalanceMePhilosophyIntention

No one likes someone who's really overconfident.

Debbie Millman

SomeoneOverconfidentLikesReally

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens

LiveChildrenWorldEnoughRiseSee

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Bruce Cockburn

GirlMorningSongNameNowOpening

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Avi Arad

TimeBookYouKnowSameComic Book

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

Ashley Judd

LifeAloneHusbandRightLeftGive

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

TogetherEggKindTwoPairSperm

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Norton Juster

ThinkYouKnowWayMeanSomething

If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail. So I go about my days trying to bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. And then everyone gets furious about it. And then I sit back and say, 'I did that!'

Ricky Gervais

LoveWorldImpossibleDoingYouGo

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Knut Hamsun

WisdomScienceI AmHereIndulge

Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.

Hrithik Roshan

WorkGoodWordsWorldYouManifest

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