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Shashi Tharoor Quotes

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: indian
Birth: March 9, 1956

Topics

Water Yourself You Find Security

I struggled to find an agency in London because no one knew whether they should put me in the men's board or the women's board. There was a lot of uncertainty about my commercial viability.

Women Men Me Uncertainty Find Knew

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

Love Art Discipline People Writing

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Good Power Man Political Sense Who

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Jealous Person Dead Room Being Like

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Anniversary Together Woman Man Rules

People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Money People Church You Country Go

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

Success History Start Boy Group Up

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.

Music I Am Identity People Listening

It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.

Wisdom Law Country Say Principles

It doesn't matter how late you get home or how wired you are, you still wake up early with your kids. That's the most important thing you do in a day, whether or not you're in a hit Broadway show.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

Home Day Wake Up You Early Late

I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.

Love Hope Soul People Writing Here

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Myself More Director Writer Than

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