V. V. S. Laxman Quotes
He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.
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Let each of us examine his thoughts.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.
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He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.
