Anoushka Shankar Quotes
“I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.”
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
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The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.'
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“I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.”
