Kapil Dev Quotes

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • You
  • Question
  • Years

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Faith

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Creative

• It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Life
  • Me
  • Sense

• Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Model
  • Class
  • Lingerie

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Society
  • Science
  • Culture

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Black
  • Best

• You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Life
  • Believe
  • She

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Best
  • Limit

• I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Future

• Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Positive
  • Learn
  • Negative