- Holidays
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get the 'Guardian' delivered every day and read it very quickly. I like it for both the TV and theatre reviews and because it's very accessible. At the weekend, I get the 'Observer' because I love the food supplement, Observer Food Monthly, and the style section. And I can't resist the News of the World.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
- Introduced
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was introduced to the world of films by Manoj Bajpayee and trained under theatre actor Makrand Deshpande.
- Boring Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020