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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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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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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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
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If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that makes somebody else happy, how is that a bad thing? I don't get why anybody cares about what they don't like so much.
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I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.
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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.
