R. Madhavan Quotes
It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
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When you're hot, you try to ride it as long as you can.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
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It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.
