Dilip Shanghvi Quotes
It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.
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Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
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A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
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My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
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It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
