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 rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
