Indra Nooyi Quotes
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
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I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.
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Having family time to reflect on your day is the best.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
