Amitava Kumar Quotes

We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group, to bargain for more power or cynical advantage.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I first came to Glasgow with no money and slept in a workman's hut on a building site.

Jimmy Savile

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Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Robert Scoble

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I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

Tom Brokaw

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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

Russell Baker

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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

Mary Oliver

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Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

Michael Moore

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'The Hummingbird's Daughter' took 20 years to write.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Louisa May Alcott

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Fashion needs to be worn.

Christian Lacroix

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I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

Britney Spears

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I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Anthony Braxton

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Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

ASAP Rocky

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