Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: 1954

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MusicBestMePerfectFindI Can

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Jean Giraudoux

LoveMenDeceiveDeceitFidelity

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

John Steinbeck

RainFindFallingPainsMany

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

Stephen Harper

GovernmentHouseDownBecauseOnly

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Stephan Jenkins

MusicMeWorldPlaceRockFirst

I think I love my sport. I enjoy to play tennis. It's my passion.

Stan Wawrinka

LovePassionThinkEnjoyPlaySport

I started tennis around age 2.

Tracy Austin

AgeTennisStartedAround

I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There's not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I'm still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.

Trey Burke

GoodConfidencePrayerTeamNight

There's nobody I look up to, really.

Rod Stewart

LookNobodyUpReally

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

GreatTimeSongThinkBornAlive

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

Mike Pence

FaithTruthPoliticsGovernmentMe

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Jonathan Dimbleby

PrincipalRivalFactRejoiceOur

You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They've got this thing wired. Too often, we live within their games, so why would you not study what works? Take away the bad stuff - because there's a lot - and use the savvy interesting stuff and figure out how they can apply. It's a good one for the ladies.

Ava DuVernay

GoodLiveInterestingYouBadWhite

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