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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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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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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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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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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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.
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That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater.
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I was convinced you were not able to tell a consumer you can have a healthy fried chip or a good-tasting baked chip.
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David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
