N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
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The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.
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The source of bad character is love of this world.
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Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
