Amish Tripathi Quotes

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.

Amish Tripathi

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• Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • March

• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Way
  • Better

• How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Food

• I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Healthy
  • Angel
  • Compromise

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Tired
  • Sick

• The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Different
  • War
  • Political

• Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Recycling

• A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Power
  • Society
  • Political

• I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

  

  Barry Mann
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Lyrics

• To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Find
  • Kiss
  • Prince

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Strategy

• In his home-life Turgot remained most frugal and laborious, treating his servants with a benevolence then accounted contemptible, and working out his quiet schemes with an infinite patience and thoroughness. When he was offered the richer Intendancy of Lyons, he would not take it. Here, as he said of himself, though he was 'the compulsory instrument of great evil,' he was doing a little good. Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Different
  • Patience
  • Servants

• The power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable.

  

  Karl Barth
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • People
  • Cutting
  • Economy

• It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Time
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• That we have purpose for being who we are, and what we are, though we may not always know it.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Purpose
  • Who We Are
  • What We Are

• Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.

  

  Amish Tripathi