Kunal Nayyar Quotes
I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
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I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person.
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In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
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I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.
