Parul Sehgal famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.
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When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.
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Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.
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As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.
-- Parul Sehgal
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
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We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.
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Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
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I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
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When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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