Ravi Subramanian Quotes
In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
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With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks.
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I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.
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You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] tax. You can help the poor in other ways besides giving them cheap gas. You want to send the message that people want to be as efficient as possible using gasoline until we can transition away from that need entirely.
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Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
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In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.
