Nithya Menen Quotes

I don't enjoy public attention. I don't like being recognised, being clicked, or being written about. But then it is destiny. I am just going with the flow.

Nithya Menen

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• Flow

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• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Imagination
  • Own
  • Capitalism

• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Together
  • Way
  • Stars

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Great
  • Around
  • Table

• For NASA, space is still a high priority.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • High
  • Space
  • Priority

• Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Blessed

• Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Want

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Disease
  • Close
  • Diagnosed

• At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Life
  • Inspired

• I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Waiting

• I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Great
  • Dirty

• I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • School

• I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

  

  Cy Coleman
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Design

• I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Home

• The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Children
  • Character
  • Attention

• Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Attention
  • Hand
  • Magic

• 'It is simple dog-eat-dog,' said Waylock. It’s basic battle for survival, fiercer and more brutal than ever before in the history of man. You have blinded yourself; you subscribe to false theories; you are permeated with your obsession-not only you but all of us. If we faced the facts of existence, our palliatories would be less crowded.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • History
  • Simple
  • Dog

• I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• I don't enjoy public attention. I don't like being recognised, being clicked, or being written about. But then it is destiny. I am just going with the flow.

  

  Nithya Menen
  • Attention
  • Destiny
  • Flow