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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In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
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It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.
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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
