Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

Bharati Mukherjee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: July 27, 1940

Topics

GovernmentI AmCitizenshipCitizen

I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

Joanna Lumley

GoodTeaBreakfastLunchDinner

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

Jocko Willink

BookReadingStopStudyingAlways

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

GreatImpossiblePoliticalAnimals

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

John le Carre

WarPerceptionRealityKnowWhy

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

Srikumar Rao

BestEnergyTryOthersElevateOwn

With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.

Solange Knowles

CommunityCelebrateArtistsCultivate

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Robert A. Cook

PositiveHelpSituationSayWill

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

Mohamed ElBaradei

PeopleNowInsideOutsideRight

Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.

Louise Bourgeois

FearSpaceLimitsAnxietyYouKnow

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Janice Dickinson

BeautyMeDoorsKnowDeserveThings

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

Anthony Warlow

StartBecomeOutSoftShowOff

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Anne Roiphe

MomentHumanityYouEscapeInsight

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