Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It's a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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It is an honor and a privilege that I am to be the sponsor of the USS Michael Murphy.

Maureen Murphy

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Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.

Amy Purdy

HandsKnowFirstDancersMoveArms

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name.

Soledad O'Brien

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The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Steve Stockman

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I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.

Steven Millhauser

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I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've gotten to work with some very talented actors - James Gandolfini, Treat Williams. I've kind of always asked for advice and tried to take in as much as I could whenever working with them.

Steven R. McQueen

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Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

Robert A. Dahl

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When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ChangeYouAlwaysVegetarianMeat

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Dennis Kucinich

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I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Donnie Wahlberg

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I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

Debby Ryan

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I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

Claire Denis

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