Aravind Adiga quote: "If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I'm just a murderer!"

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger&...
DAVID BENIOFF

We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON

The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card ...
KAREN EVANS

First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making ...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU

You go into their homes every night about 300 times a year for an hour, that tends to help your name...
JOE SCARBOROUGH

If ID card is everything, what do ration-card stands for?
VIJAYRAJ BHATT

That's what campaigns are for, to get the name ID out.
DOUG COLE

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL

The charge is that she (Thomas) punched someone in the face and then she chose to give police a fake...
LAURA MCELROY

As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

If I paid less attention to details, Id trust easier.
KEYSHMA.SOSA

You can't just give people an ID card and everyone relaxes.
GRIER WEEKS

Id go over frequently and visit with her.
BETTY B. GIBSON

If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what iss...
DONNA BRAZILE

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
ADAM COHEN

Id rather be told am beautiful than get a poem saying I look like sunshine
KIMBERLY SHILENJE

If the truth needs to be told, then that's what I'll do, ... If he [Reid] wants to be a man about it...
TERRELL OWENS

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
PHILIP ROTH

If you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a company, I think the first thing you do is y...
DAVE GOLDBERG

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ...
ANDREW YOUNG

What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? ‘If you want to continue to remain in the worldly ...
DADA BHAGWAN

What we do know about the team we'll let the guys know and then get prepared for a couple more days ...
MEL VOLLMAN

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN

We cannot divulge details yet and I am yet to consent to any. But if all falls into place, Id like t...
JASMINE TRIAS

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still ...
BRUCE SCHNEIER

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

When I read reviews, I go right past the plot. I don't want to read anything about the story, and I ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then ...
KENNY CHESNEY

I knew what the big cheer was about, but then I had to go up there and try to get a good pitch to hi...
JOHN OLERUD

It was certainly a relief to get this win. It was one that we sorely needed. I really can't say enou...
BRIAN HILL

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse...
ANGIE STONE

But it was scary because when I met with Cameron, we were both sniffing around each other trying to ...
SUSAN SARANDON

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can d...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I think (humor) just kind of comes to me naturally. It just seems like kind of the way I like to do ...
ADAM CARROLL

Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year...
JOHN CANDY

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught...
LEE IACOCCA

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P

Foley, Savage and Bret Hart have been doing just fine outside of the world of wrestling, ... What el...
BRET HART

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know how hard he works. We wanted to win in the semis because then you get a good draw in the firs...
BILL SUTTON

I know im awesome because if i was superman the first thing i would do is build a suit made out of l...
NATHAN ELMO MELO

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

The number of pipes was obviously too many to just [drill] down. Then what are they for? I can assum...
SHOICHI NAKAGAWA

After a witness makes a positive ID, if the investigator says something that validates the ID before...
BRIAN CUTLER

I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-cla...
HODA KOTB

I don't now what situation they came from and I don't know what they were offered to go somewhere el...
RICHARD PETTY

Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was fo...
RAYMOND CARVER

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just kee...
JOHN GREEN

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last para...
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
STEVEN WRIGHT

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
STEPHEN WRIGHT

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to deme...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.
JOSE MOURINHO

I just try to forget about what happened in the first half. And then it's a new 20 minutes. You just...
ASHLEY JOSEPHSON

If thinking the worst about me makes you feel better about yourself, then by all means go ahead and ...
ROSA M. BETANCES

We were curious to know if people had access to this information, if it would matter to them, ... Pe...
CHARLES BAKER

Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimp...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA

I tend to write some, then outline some, then delete some, then go back and rewrite some. I love rev...
LAUREN KATE

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just kno...
KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Requesting the actual identity document (not just the ID number) and personal details is a must. Whe...
ALEX WRIGHT

I know what I'll end up doing. Sometimes I think about it, but then I just think about the consequen...
JOSHUA ROSARIO

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they'...
TREY PARKER

If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I'm just a murderer!

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Aravind Adiga

If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I'm just a murderer!

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