Vivek Wadhwa Quotes
Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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The media is controlled.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.
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Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
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The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
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We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.
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Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
