R. Madhavan Quotes
I am not someone who would raise my voice to seek publicity. I am a responsible citizen, and I continue to be so.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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I love music; it's my passion.
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What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.
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One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
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Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.
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If this cycle is going to continue, and it looks like the 2007 World Cup is going to be played under it, we'll have to adapt to it.
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I am not someone who would raise my voice to seek publicity. I am a responsible citizen, and I continue to be so.
