Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

Bharati Mukherjee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveCulturePoliticsCityCelebrate

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

John Jay Chapman

DogLoveHatePeoplePhilosophy

So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.

Amy Chozick

WomenOpportunityWomanCareerDown

The challenge that we faced with the arrival of the Obama administration is, they didn't really have time to build trust before they had to make big, difficult decisions.

Stanley A. McChrystal

TimeChallengeTrustDecisionsBuild

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

Tony Vincent

FamilyGoodJobI AmWhateverShow

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

Ronnie Milsap

LoveMusicHeartMeDoingEnjoy

We want every generation to know a little something about TLC.

Rozonda Thomas

GenerationKnowWantLittleTLC

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Mike Peters

LiveSocietyBelieveChoicePersonal

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

LL Cool J

Stand UpFaceStandYouDefeatWill

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

Don Winslow

JusticeIdeasThinkLookMeanNeed

People call me energy in a bottle.

JoJo Siwa

PeopleMeEnergyCallBottle

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

Dick Costolo

WhereBlockedTownTwitterShanghai

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

Dennis Quaid

FamousLearnFirstActJustHow

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