Top 50 Quotes About Bangladesh

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

Khaleda Zia

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#2. What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.

John Gimlette

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#3. This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did ... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#4. In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

Sarah Gavron

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#5. 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

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#6. When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

Taslima Nasrin

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#7. By the time the war was over, Bangladesh was a devastated country. The economy was shattered. Millions of people needed to be rehabilitated. I knew that I had to return home and participate in the work of nation building. I thought I owed it to myself.

Muhammad Yunus

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#8. I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

Muhammad Yunus

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#9. 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

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#10. 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

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#11. We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

Muhammad Yunus

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#12. 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

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#13. I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

Muhammad Yunus

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#14. 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

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#15. Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

Sourav Ganguly

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#16. 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

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#17. 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

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#18. 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

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#19. SingTel has made substantial investments in markets with high growth potential in South Asia, such as India and Bangladesh.

Chua Sock Koong

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#20. 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

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#21. Shit. What have kids got to be worried about now? If they want trouble, they should go live in Bangladesh.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Amy Waldman

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#23. The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

Muhammad Yunus

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#24. Just going to Bangladesh was an experience ... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts.

Sarah Gavron

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

Taslima Nasrin

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#26. Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

Johnnetta B. Cole

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#27. I am happy with my Bangladesh.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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#28. It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

Mahela Jayawardene

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#29. Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

John Green

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#30. What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

Salman Rushdie

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#31. I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

Taslima Nasrin

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#32. Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.

Bill Gates

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#33. Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after South Africa and the Bangladesh series I can clock off for two or three months. It's like Friday afternoon for a guy who goes to work all week.

Brett Lee

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#34. In Bangladesh, there's a saying that if you get killed by a snake, its destiny... But if you get killed by a tiger, its just bad luck.

Guy Delisle

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#35. 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

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#36. 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

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#37. I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

Taslima Nasrin

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#38. 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

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#39. A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.

Michael Glawogger

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#40. One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

Nicholas Kristof

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#41. Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

Poe Ballantine

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#42. I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!

Muhammad Yunus

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#43. 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

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#44. Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

Jamais Cascio

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#45. I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

Robert Winston

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

Taslima Nasrin

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#47. Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed

Rachel Martin

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#48. They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

Monica Ali

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#49. Yardy doing a good job out there - 1-14 off his five overs so far - but Bangla are letting this drift. The bowling is there to attack, but they're as passive as sleeping sloths at the mo.

Tom Fordyce

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#50. I have no words to express my sadness, grief, and frustration. I never thought Bengali people could do such a heinous and atrocious thing. My heart goes out to those innocent victims and their families.

Debasish Mridha

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