Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

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• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

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• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

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• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

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• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

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• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

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• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

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• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

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• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

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• One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

  

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• Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

  

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• Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • Father