Shashi Tharoor Quotes

If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

Shashi Tharoor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

Joe Frazier

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I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

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I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

Maxine Peake

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As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

Michael B. Jordan

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I'm someone who is inspired by people who've spoken out about different racial and gender issues.

Amandla Stenberg

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Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish crush on Putin's gangster swagger and his contempt for democracy, Trump wants to rule with his family, taking decisions purely because he's right about everything like a tsar.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want.

Tommy Lee

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I like to explore sounds.

Roscoe Mitchell

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Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

Diane Ackerman

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I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

Derrick Jensen

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I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Christopher Gorham

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I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.

Brad Feld

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