Sunil Yapa Quotes
One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?
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I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.
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'Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.'
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Every day of the show, I'd have about 100 of those rollers all over my head, and I'd have to wear them for hours. I even went to dinner like that a few times! I swear, half of my 'Boy Meets World' pictures have me wearing rollers in them.
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Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.
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I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
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I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
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You have to take care of your guys. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.
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I have to be a teacher to my daughters.
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I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.
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It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
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I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.
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I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'
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Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.
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France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
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One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.
