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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I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
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The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.
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Perhaps the potency of fever, of drugs, of alcohol, or of mania may open up deeps of memory, of primordial memory, that are closed to the milder magic of sleep. The subtle poison in the grape may gnaw through the walls of Time and give the memory sight of those terrible days when we wallowed — nameless shapes — in the primaeval slime.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
