Shashi Tharoor Quotes

Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend's sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that.

Shashi Tharoor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FriendWorldSittingAirportStudy

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

Andie MacDowell

EducationMarriageMotherMusicBack

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

Michael Bloomberg

ConfidenceNew YorkShortRemember

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce

PositiveVoiceTopMistaken

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Steve Carell

AloneDayYourselfPracticeBrain

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Steve Jobs

ScienceGreatBestPeopleAmazing

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Steven Soderbergh

FunWeirdIronyHardWatchFilm

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Tori Amos

PeopleLockAwaySacredManyPart

I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even if everything in your life is great, bad weather can set the mood. You can write songs in New York because it's not always perfect. To write a good song, things can't be perfect.

Tom Odell

LifeGoodGreatNew YorkWeather

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

Ronnie Wood

MeNewDiggingStillLikeBands

When I think of Camelot, I think of the castle in France where we film, but I think it's wrong to lock it down to one place because it's all part of our imagination. They are legends for a reason. Their stories have endured for hundreds of years and, hopefully, they will for hundreds of years to come.

Colin Morgan

ImaginationThinkDownWrongPlace

It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.

Peter Mayer

AlwaysSomethingAgreePublishRead

I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.

Perrey Reeves

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