Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes
In Vedic times, we had the great quest for the unknown. We did wonderful things; we celebrate our past vigyaan and our wonderful heritage of science and technology of the Vedic times.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.
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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
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O’Hara was in his most non-stop way of talking, saying that the pictures put him in mind of Tiepolo Spanish wall-painter, c. 1750. Certain cupola frescoes. Suddenly I was working in an ancient building, a warehouse facing the Giudecca. The loft over the firehouse was transformed. It was filled with light reflected from the canal. quote in 1955
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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
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In Vedic times, we had the great quest for the unknown. We did wonderful things; we celebrate our past vigyaan and our wonderful heritage of science and technology of the Vedic times.
