Nalini Nadkarni Quotes
When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I believe in people. Human beings, deep down, are essentially good. Any jury can filter through whatever bull might be thrown their way and use common sense to get to the truth of a case. Juries make the right decisions, almost unfailingly, because people know right from wrong.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
