Arundhati Roy Quotes

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Arundhati Roy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreedomMoneyWarPeopleMeThink

Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.

Jimmy Scott

TimeMyselfTogetherNew YorkBaby

It's often hard to just throw money at a problem when you don't really know what the problem is.

Megan Rapinoe

MoneyProblemYouKnowHardJust

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.

Stephen Kinzer

AmericanCubaMayTradeWouldMost

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann

PoetryWantGotDealFewMonths

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence.

Mikko Hypponen

IntelligenceWorldRestLegalSearch

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

Joseph Prince

BuildOthersUpOnlyWhoBuilt

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

FamilyLearningTimePeopleReading

From wrestling, I learned what I'm not going to do again.

Diamond Dallas Page

WrestlingGoingAgainLearned

I've long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I'm familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others' stories with their own.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

PeopleLongPlaceOthersOwnBeen

People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.

Armaan Malik

MusicPeopleThinkCareerPlaceWay

When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.

Peter Hook

MusicFatYouComfortableSound

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

Sharon Salzberg

MeditationExperiencesContextWere

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