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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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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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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If you want the world to knowWe won't let hatred growPut a little love in your heart.
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The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.
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This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
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Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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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.
