Vivek Wadhwa Quotes
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
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Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
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Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
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It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.
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The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.
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I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.
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An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
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I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
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It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.
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There is more power in unity than division.
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For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.
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I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.
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I mean, there's obviously only one Leo DiCaprio but I look at guys like Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise and think I'd like to have that type of career... that would be really great if I could have that.
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The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
