P. Chidambaram Quotes
'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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I got a big mouth.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
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When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.
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I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
