A. R. Rahman Quotes
I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.
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I was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn't a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.
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The most terrible things end, at last.
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I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.
