Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Science
  • Political

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• My whole career - I have been really lucky.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Career
  • Really
  • Lucky

• My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Family
  • City

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Father
  • Political
  • Air

• Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Become
  • Fragments

• I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Want
  • Never
  • Finish

• The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Moving
  • Mirror
  • Moving Forward

• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Obvious
  • Sticky

• When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero - honey, avocado, stuff like that - other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don't blow dry my hair ever unless for work; I'd rather go for the natural look.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Work
  • Hair
  • Look

• I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Up
  • May
  • Down

• It's definitely longer than the buzz cut you see most of the time in the federal government. I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Time
  • Government
  • Rock

• Maxima superbia vel abjectio est maxima sui ignorantia.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

  

  S. N. Goenka
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Future

• Animals are a huge part of my life, so yes, if you are going to be a part of my life, you would need to have the same love for animals. Howard is so great in that aspect and he truly is my partner. We have six resident cats - Walter, Apple, Leon Bear, Charlie Boy, Bella, and Yoda-and we have fostered over fifty kittens in the last year. He even lets the kittens play in his hair! They love it!

  

  Beth Ostrosky Stern
  • My Life
  • Partner
  • Animals

• Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

  

  David Steinberg

• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Power
  • Common

• Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Hate

• I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw