Nandan Nilekani Quotes
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim -
I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
Zoey Deutch -
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
J. G. Stedman -
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman -
I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
Ted Naifeh
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine -
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien -
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
Takeru Kobayashi -
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco -
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
Larry Wilcox
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
G. Willow Wilson -
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
Rachel Platten -
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
Dane Cook -
When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
Imre Kertesz -
I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
Saina Nehwal -
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
G-Eazy
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The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.
Chrysippus -
Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
Jim Loehr -
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.
Jason Behr -
Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
Nandan Nilekani