R. Madhavan Quotes

I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.

R. Madhavan

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• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Life
  • Normal

• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Want
  • Man
  • Rap

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Try
  • Negative
  • Thinker

• I am all for controlling guns.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guns
  • Controlling

• It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Children
  • School

• The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Personal
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • True
  • Inspired

• After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it.

  

  Bob Dylan

• If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Family
  • Community

• Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Home
  • Literature

• After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Believe
  • Breath
  • Convinced

• When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Strong
  • Listening
  • Records

• The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • World
  • Man
  • Nation

• I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Stories
  • Roles
  • Chocolate