Uday Kotak Quotes
I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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I still keep my accent.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop.
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People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
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It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
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I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
