Amitava Kumar Quotes

Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImaginationAdvertisingWorldMedia

I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

PeopleThinkPressureFeelI Can

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

Mel Tillis

SchoolPeopleMeLaughYouKnow

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

Steve Garvey

FamilyLoveGreatTimeBaseball

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Stephen King

HeartPeopleSmallThinkPersonBoy

'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.

Stacey D'Erasmo

LiveSongCanadaStrangeTwoOut

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

Sienna Miller

DailyMenYearsNumberAlmost

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

Tony Abbott

BorderWantAustraliaRefugeeCome

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Rosa Parks

WorkHomeDayHardGetOnly

Actually, I'm not crazed about what I eat.

Julia Roberts

EatAboutActually

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

Diplo

MusicHip-HopPlayingGiantRave

Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly - to score PR points. Amazon, Boeing, Bank of America, and other corporations have played the part of school benefactor, offering everything from reward programs to school supplies.

Alissa Quart

SchoolFinancialAmericaRewardMore

I knew that if I just came out as a singer, people would just be criticizing my voice.

Syd

PeopleVoiceOutSingerJustWould

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