Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

Vivek Wadhwa

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• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• 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.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Death
  • Dream

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Old
  • Avengers

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • American
  • America

• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Mom
  • Benefits
  • Workplace

• Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • She
  • Looking
  • Lady

• 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.

  

  Rain
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • School
  • Never
  • Acting

• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Thug

• All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

  

  Edmund White

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• … 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Ego

• We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Corruption

• If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Regret
  • Compromise

• In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

  

  Amanda Schull
  • School
  • High
  • Ethics

• Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Ethics
  • Compromise