Raghuram Rajan Quotes
I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
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If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
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Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.
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Ideas are easy. Execution is all that matters.
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You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
