Yusuf Hamied Quotes
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.Yusuf Hamied
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Natalie Portman -
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
Lacey Chabert -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
Kate Fleetwood
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
Malala Yousafzai -
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham -
There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock -
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna -
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule -
The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
Yuvraj Singh -
We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
Madeleine Stowe -
'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale -
I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
Kate Spade
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In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.
Amy Heckerling -
Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.
Ne-Yo -
We must work-in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton-to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle as a nation is because we’ve come to see only what we represent, at face value, instead of who we are. We simply must see the people we serve.
James Comey -
I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
Blake Shelton -
Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.
Bobby Unser -
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Yusuf Hamied