Shashi Tharoor Quotes

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

Shashi Tharoor

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Author Biography

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

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I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

John Barrowman

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I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

John Bercow

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I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

Andrew Sean Greer

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I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

Trey Parker

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I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Shirley MacLaine

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I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

Trevor Paglen

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My mother is a beauty.

Mary-Louise Parker

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I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.

Joy Behar

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A combination of stir-fry and salad, Lok Lak is a popular staple in Cambodia. It's usually made with beef, but in olden times, in the country's mountainous areas, venison would've gone sizzling into the wok.

Jonathan Miles

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This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.

Dennis Farina

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Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.

Clint Smith

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In Nashville, if people don't like someone, they say, 'I don't really like him,' then add, 'bless his heart.' In Hollywood, they kind of leave that last part off.

Brad Paisley

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