Vikram Seth Quotes

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

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• I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Love
  • Power
  • Voice

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I am always locked in my design studio.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Design
  • Studio
  • Locked

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Want
  • Hair
  • Grow

• For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • Together
  • Service

• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Future

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• There's no business like show business.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Business
  • Show Business

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Good
  • Believe
  • House

• I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Always
  • Camera

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Morning

• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Musicians

• Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Hate

• I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Good
  • Live
  • House

• The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.

  

  Chester Brown
  • Book
  • Planning

• I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

  

  Vikram Seth
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