Shashi Tharoor Quotes

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel.

Shashi Tharoor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Robert Orben

BlameComputersMoreHumanEvenErr

I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

Jeff Lemire

ValueEndHellViolenceEnjoyJust

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Standing Bear

NatureHeartManHardAwayBecomes

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.

Michelle Malkin

StarsChildrenHealthPastMoon

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

Michael Moore

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I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

Lisa Snowdon

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The biggest waste of time of my life was playing 'Call of Duty.' But I got really good at 'Call of Duty' - a little bit too good at that time.

Jason Day

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There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not. The decision to send British soldiers into battle is the worst and most stomach-churning senior politicians have to take. It makes them wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying if they have done the right thing.

Jonathan Powell

DecisionWarNightWake UpCold

Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.

Donald Bren

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I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.

Christina Ricci

MorningTimePeopleMeLaughWant

Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.

Colson Whitehead

GoodGreatPeopleTalkParanoia

I think Jay Leno is fantastic.

Brian L. Roberts

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