Urjit Patel Quotes
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.
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I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.
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The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.
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A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.
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Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
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There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.
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All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
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In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
