Fareed Zakaria Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I was married for four years, then success happened.
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You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
