Nandan Nilekani Quotes
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
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It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
