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.
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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.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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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.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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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.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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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.
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We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
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Some of my toughest races are people I've known, because it gets more personal than it should be.
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When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.
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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
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Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
