Shashi Tharoor Quotes

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

Shashi Tharoor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Joe Moore

TimeMoneySimpleLearnYouHard

My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

Jidenna

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I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LanguageWishNewKindDesperation

I've always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you're just piling a lot of unnatural, unnecessary stress on your face. I try to keep it simple.

Amber Rose

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I've got to give props to my dad. He got me into the UFC and the MMA scene to begin with.

Robert Whittaker

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I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Mitch Kapor

ControlKnowOutUpWokeWould

No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.

Mitch McConnell

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What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.

Jovan Adepo

PerformanceScreenYourHappens

There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

Derek Walcott

IdentityBlameWorldGuiltNew

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

Debi Gliori

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I think TV is a fantastic medium right now because of what you can do visually. It's phenomenal, and it's just getting better and better, but in a way, there's no beating the personal image you can create in your head, with those personal aspects, which you can only get from reading or radio dramas.

Colin Morgan

ReadingThinkBetterGetting Better

My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'

Brad Garrett

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