Padma Lakshmi Quotes
For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.