N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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I'm open to all kind of scripts. As long as there's enough scope to perform, I'd take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and 'TT' happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.
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I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.
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Force is not a remedy.
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
