Arundhati Roy Quotes

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

Arundhati Roy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: November 24, 1961

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I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

Joe Russo

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I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

Jerry Hall

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My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.

Jemima Kirke

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Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.

Jen Lancaster

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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Lou Holtz

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Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

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For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

Chelsea Clinton

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I can jump high; I can dunk - nobody really believes that I can.

Christian Pulisic

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We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

Christie Brinkley

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Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.

Brad Schneider

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We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Arianna Huffington

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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.

August Wilson

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