Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.
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I don't follow the food trends.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office.
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People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing 'The A-Team.'
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I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.
