Anand Mahindra Quotes
If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.
Quotes to Explore
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I am always drawn to father/son stories.
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I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
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When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
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For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.
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If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.
