N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
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The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
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I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.
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I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.
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I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
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It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
