Padma Lakshmi Quotes
I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
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I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
