Shashi Tharoor Quotes

The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common problems, and seize common opportunities. The U.N. helps establish the norms that many countries - including the United States - would like everyone to live by.

Shashi Tharoor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.

Andrew Lincoln

LoveScienceHistoryTimeSameWere

I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

Angela Merkel

ChildhoodShadowMeFreeOverRoom

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

Jeff Bridges

YouCreatingMoviesUpLittle

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

Stuart Woods

TalentNewFirstAmbitiousShould

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Sidney Poitier

MorningWake UpBetter PersonBetter

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

Rodrigo Duterte

NowWayTurnBeingOppressedLike

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

Philip Pullman

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My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Penn Jillette

LoveSunPeopleCrazyThinkLoved

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

Ryan Holiday

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It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

Richard Ben-Veniste

QuestionsEasyGetFranklyAnswered

I want to thank the American people - on both sides of the aisle - for years of financial, diplomatic, and military support, and for helping us carry the burden of defense.

Reuven Rivlin

SupportPeopleFinancialAmerican

I will become a clean president. I will become a president who can retire home as an ordinary citizen and is welcomed by neighbors.

Moon Jae-in

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