Nandan Nilekani Quotes
You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.
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Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
