Gary Wright Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
Natascha McElhone -
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther -
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
Aasif Mandvi -
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
Victoria Pratt -
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
Beck
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East -
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen -
Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
Dan Hill -
I'm not politically correct.
Kary Mullis
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
Callie Thorne -
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
Hans Blix -
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
Ted Sarandos -
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus -
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
Haley Joel Osment -
With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
Barry Ritholtz
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I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
Tahereh Mafi -
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
Walter Kirn -
We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
Baba Kalyani -
Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.
Sam Yagan -
In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
Gary Wright