Vir Das Quotes

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

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• Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Internet

• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Loved

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Films
  • Chosen

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

  

  Jeremy London
  • Dad
  • Car
  • Golf

• I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Political

• I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Feeling

• Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

  

  Vir Das
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