Indian Quotes - Page 36

• It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Self, People

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• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Diaspora, Lucky

  "The publishing world is pretty heinous: Kiran Desai". Interview with Nabanita Sircar, www.indiatoday.in. October 30, 2006.

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• I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Stories, World, Feels

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• West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

  Melanie Fiona

  Perfect, Balance, West

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• Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

  Maggie Grace

  Beach, Hawaii, Los Angeles

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• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Successful, Feelings, Want

  "All rage and heart" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

  Sherman Alexie

  Artist, Thinking, Want

  "Redeemers". Interview with Matt Dellinger, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

  Anthony F. C. Wallace

  Science, America, Digging

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• Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

  Johnny Cash

  War, Drinking, Marine

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• When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

  Henry Flynt

  New York, Artist, Competing

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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• There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

  Rahul Gandhi

  New York, Yoga, Dancing

  "Rahul Gandhi Speech Hits Some Dud Notes" by Tom Wright, blogs.wsj.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  M. F. Husain

  Ninety Nine, People, Stills

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  Hari Kunzru

  Military, Thinking, Fiction

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• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  Hari Kunzru

  Flower, Book, Hands

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• Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

  Anish Kapoor

  Levels, Red, Grew Up

  Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com. 2003.

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• I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Zombie, Good Man, Chinese

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

  Mindy Kaling

  Children, Law, Parent

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• Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Past, Years, Asking

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.345, U of Nebraska Press

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• One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Men, Years, Law

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Country, Moving, Way

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• Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Names, Decision, President

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• I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Theatre, Dialect, Half

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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