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.
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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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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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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.
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It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
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Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.
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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.
