Bangladesh Quotes

• What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Healthy, Trying

  Interview with Neha Thirani, www.thedailystar.net. February 24, 2012.

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• Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

  Jean Houston

  Poetry And Music, World, Singers

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

  Amartya Sen

  Home, Delight, Engaging

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• I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Ideas, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Latin, Differences, America

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• I am happy with my Bangladesh.

  Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

  "The statesman in Bangabandhu" by The statesman in Bangabandhu Syed Badrul Ahsan, www.thedailystar.net. August 14, 2009.

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• When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Awards, India

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• If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

  Khaleda Zia

  Would Be, Steps, Regions

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• Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Sea, Rivers

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed

  Rachel Martin

  Speech, Free Speech

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.

  Michael Glawogger

  Men, Done, Sari

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.

  Indira Gandhi

  Home, Feet, Offering

  Source: sangam.org

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• Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Home, Thinking, Government

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• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Home, India, Want

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'" by Taslima Nasrin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Mistake, Thinking

  "Thoroughly postmodern billionaire" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

  Amy Waldman

  America, Gold, Tin

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.

  Simon Winchester

  Long, Needs, Wonder

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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Religious, Book, Bans

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• I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take.

  Indira Gandhi

  Giving, Doe, Want

  Source: sangam.org

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• The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, War, People

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1979.

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• I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Years, Vaccines

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely states.... Then the British drew a line, and now we're three countries, two of them pointing nukes at each other - the radical Hindu bomb and the radical Muslim bomb.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

  Phil Foglio

  Hero, Son, Upset

  "Girl Genius". Comic series by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, (2001-).

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• Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

  George Monbiot

  Science, Office, Energy

  "I'm all for putting more vehicles on our roads. As long as they're coaches" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2006.

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• You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life to lead? People want economic development first and foremost. The leaders may talk something else. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Jobs, School, Home

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