Shashi Tharoor Quotes

I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.

Shashi Tharoor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ServiceMake A DifferenceLongIndia

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

John Keats

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We need to take lessons learned from fighting terrorism and apply them to cyber crime.

Robert Mueller

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It's who you know and who can help you.

Jeffrey Combs

HelpYouKnowWho

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Amanda Burton

WantRunWouldLikeFieldAround

I'm a flower gardener.

Sissy Spacek

FlowerGardener

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Simon McBurney

TheatreLiarsCharlatans

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

Rush Limbaugh

ChangeSchoolHigh SchoolMediaYou

Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

Michael Steinhardt

JoyWinningRightMayWellRush

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

Juan Williams

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My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

Antonia Fraser

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He was wearing a tuxedo, and everyone was saying, 'Rich! Rich! Rich!' and asking him to sign autographs, and he just looked so composed and suave and handsome, and boom! All of the sudden, I thought, 'This could be OK.' And we've been together ever since.

Suzy Shuster

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Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

Peter Jurasik

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