Yusuf Hamied Quotes
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.
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Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
