Saina Nehwal Quotes
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.
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Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.
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I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
