Amitava Kumar Quotes

Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some sort of deity.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

IndiaUniformBureaucracyRightHer

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.

Jeremy Corbyn

PeopleAgreeSureMet

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

Anna Kournikova

LifePeopleAmazingMeAlwaysBeen

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

John Updike

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Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.

Stacie Orrico

SchoolYouTwoUpDaysStarted

The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.

Tom Brokaw

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While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Robert Teeter

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The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.

Chen Shui-bian

PeopleViewResultsTwoMajority

If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.

Coco Martin

CharacterYouWantOwnGetYour

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

Bruce Springsteen

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There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.

Anushka Sharma

LiveHappinessI AmMeDoingEnough

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Audra McDonald

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The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

Publilius Syrus

LoveOnlyWhoWoundsMadeHealed

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