Shashi Tharoor Quotes

Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.'

Shashi Tharoor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through.

John Gurdon

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I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

John Niven

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When I'm at a show, I'm there to have fun. Let's just not care for a moment. So this cake in your face is to make you lose your mind. And it's not about caring about whatever you are wearing and caring what other people are thinking about you. Out of the context, I'm trying to develop something else.

Steve Aoki

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Tony Benn

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What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music.

Roscoe Mitchell

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I like diversity. I'd like there to be all levels of gay and straight, all different variations of gender, all colors, all creeds. I'm into seeing that.

LP

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Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

Dick Van Dyke

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What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

Allegra Huston

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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

Alice Oswald

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I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

Syd

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The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

Scott Turow

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I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well.

Ricky Gervais

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