Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: 1954

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MemoryMindWritingStrategyLiving

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

Joe Slovo

PeopleMoodNeedRespondSideTake

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

Stevie Nicks

FamilyLoveMoneyMeRoadGo

Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

Jason Fried

ShoesJobSellingTennisSalesOut

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

Donald Trump

BeautyMyselfMeRichYouI Can

I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.

Colm Toibin

BookNationalismViolenceNeverOpen

I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and ate lunch. I had a childhood that I would wish for anyone.

Clemantine Wamariya

MotherChildhoodLunchLovedWish

I want to do this for a long time; I want people to be saying, 'What is he doing still playing in clubs?'

Cole Swindell

TimePeopleSayingDoingLongWant

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Peter Senge

ChangeBrokenPeopleThinkYouNeed

We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian Federation became what it is - you know, with no borders, with no budget, no money, and with huge problems starting with lack of food and so on and so forth.

Sergei Lavrov

FoodMoneyProblemsYouEarlyKnow

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.

Nostradamus

GreatTimeTogetherPastPresent

One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It's like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It's easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.

Nick Saban

StruggleGolfEasyPitchingPennies

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

Nicola Sturgeon

WorkPeopleWork HardEnoughHelp

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