Nandan Nilekani Quotes
Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.
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I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'
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Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
