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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political p...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is no...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest term...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If th...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subje...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been suc...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM

still one or two gray areas which need to be addressed.
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM

The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH WhatEver May Be The Problems, Dont Be Afraid, Think That They Are The Questions Infront Of You As An...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE

We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going ...
TARAJI P. HENSON

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. LOVECRAFT The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
SALMON P. CHASE What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
SALMON P. CHASE The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa...
SALMON P. CHASE All men are born equally free.
SALMON P. CHASE Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the inte...
SALMON P. CHASE What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which...
SALMON P. CHASE The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am read...
SALMON P. CHASE The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot...
SALMON P. CHASE

Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly h...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the g...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of imm...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has i...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitmen...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I feel like we all have our skeletons.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
TARAJI P. HENSON

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor...
TARAJI P. HENSON

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to...
TARAJI P. HENSON

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes w...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm nothing without God.
TARAJI P. HENSON

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I don't ever want to feel complacent.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by you...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON

When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn mor...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no ...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i...
TARAJI P. HENSON

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, m...
TARAJI P. HENSON

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
TARAJI P. HENSON

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
TARAJI P. HENSON The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human ...
KEVIN P. RYAN Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,&...
W. P. KINSELLA I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. KINSELLA Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ...
J. P. MORGAN

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the ...
JOHN P. KOTTER

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,...
P. T. BARNUM

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur...
P. J. O'ROURKE

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as...
P. T. BARNUM

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. LOVECRAFT As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder...
JAMES P. HOFFA

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. BARNUM

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in...
P. T. BARNUM

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
P. T. BARNUM

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. BARNUM

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lig...
P. T. BARNUM

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can u...
P. T. BARNUM

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
P. T. BARNUM

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar ge...
P. T. BARNUM

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
P. T. BARNUM

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. BARNUM

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning a...
P. T. BARNUM

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little l...
P. T. BARNUM

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
P. T. BARNUM

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
P. T. BARNUM

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. BARNUM I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore...
P. J. HARVEY Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ...
P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B...
P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di...
P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information...
P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...
P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

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