Amitava Kumar Quotes

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: March 17, 1963

Topics

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I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

Jessica White

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I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.

Melissa McCarthy

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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Robert Hughes

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The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

Robert Mueller

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How young can you die of old age?

Steven Wright

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'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.

Tom Reiss

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Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

Michelle MacLaren

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As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

Jason Mraz

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It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.

Jared Polis

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If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.

Christopher Guest

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My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

Chelsea Clinton

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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

Brigitte Bardot

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