Balaji Srinivasan Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
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I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
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If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains.
