Urjit Patel Quotes
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.
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When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.
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I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
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For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.
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That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.
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We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
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Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
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It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.
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I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.
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I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
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It is easy and quick to fritter away gains regarding macroeconomic stability.
