Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

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• I endeavor to make the most of everything.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Everything
  • Most
  • Endeavor

• Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Movies

• Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Justice
  • Better
  • Judges

• We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Think
  • Today
  • Spirit

• We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Innovation
  • Development

• I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Blind

• I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Son
  • Oppression
  • Crown

• But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • World
  • Friends
  • New

• Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Creative

• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Negative

• My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Man
  • Me
  • Dad

• Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Dream
  • Dad
  • His

• The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.

  

  Nneka
  • World
  • Concerned
  • Nigeria

• I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Relationships
  • Tough
  • Stand

• Tough situations form experiences from which we grow and learn. So I think it’s really better to have gone through tough times than not to have any at all.

  

  Sho Sakurai Arashi
  • Grow
  • Tough
  • Situations

• I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Tough
  • Tenacious