Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

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Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours.

Matthew Stewart

SunStarJustLikeWorldsEvery

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

Jeb Hensarling

SmallBiggerBigBanksWereAfter

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Spiro T. Agnew

BikeIntelligenceManKnowParkWho

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

Ruth Ware

TeenCrimeMoreClassicAbsolutely

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

Mick Cornett

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The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

Cory Booker

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The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture has a lot, but there's no way to communicate it in a wide way.

Richard Linklater

CultureIdeasWayRoomAcademic

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Martin Filler

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'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.

Marlon Wayans

CrazyRealityLostPlacesWayScary

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

Kylie Minogue

LearningYouCraftYearsJustPut

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Germaine Greer

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