N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
