Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes
My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.
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Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
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My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
