Quotes
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Chetan Bhagat

"Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? Itâ€™s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices."

Source : Chetan Bhagat's speech given at the orientation program for the new batch of MBA students, www.chetanbhagat.com. July 24, 2008.

Chetan Bhagat

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“Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.”
“If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film.”
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
“No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
“I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people can make a living at, and I was able to do something I liked, rather than be in a job that I hated.”
“When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.”
“I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.”

Source : Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.243, Duke University Press

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