Nita Ambani Quotes
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
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(On being called cynical & skeptical): 'I do have a healthy skepticism, I think we all should. But I think if you listen closely enough, you’ll find that my message, if I as a joke-blower could be pompous enough to have one, is that we’re all alright and it’s gonna work out. I don’t find that cynical at all.'
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I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
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It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.
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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
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My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'
