Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

Jimmy Connors

I AmMeLookingCareWayUp

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Jesse Ventura

WinYouLoseAlwaysCheatMust

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

John Waters

GodThank GodSexDirtyWillAlways

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

Stefano Pessina

I AmPeopleDetailsYouRunBuild

The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it.

Spike Milligan

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I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

Tom Holland

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There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

Tom Selleck

TimeWorldConfusionStarBeenHe

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

Michaela Coel

MemoriesRevolveTVManyAround

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Alice Walker

LoveImaginationFreeYouFallGo

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.

Paul Watson

DieWillWatchSeenLeftWhale

Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these rocky runts won't cause Armageddon, they could still flatten such popular hominid hangouts as Manhattan or downtown Des Moines.

Seth Shostak

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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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