Pranav Mistry Quotes

Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
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• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

  

  Manning Marable
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• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
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• My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

  

  Gale Gordon
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• I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

  

  Maira Kalman
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• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
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• There is no advance without strife.

  

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• The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

  

  James Rebhorn
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• As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

  

  Arthur Middleton
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• No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.

  

  Pranav Mistry
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