"India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India."

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Source : Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.39, Penguin Books India

Shashi Tharoor

#Who I Am Quotes #Mind Quotes #Identity Quotes

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.”
“When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Mar 17, 2014
“It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.”

Source : Andrew M. Greeley (1993). “Love Affair: A Prayer Journal”, Crossroad
“Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.”
“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.”

Source : "This milquetoast consensus is unnerved by radical faith" by Tristram Hunt, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2007.
“I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.”
“You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.”

Source : Scholastic interview, www.scholastic.com.
“Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vÃ©ritÃ© filmmaking to more archival."”

Source : "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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