Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes
What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
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You know, search has never been a strong suit of Facebook.
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One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting married and, ultimately, they don't give a fig how you get it done.
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For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn't be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn't want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.
