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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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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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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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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Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
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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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We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
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We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.
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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.
