Anand Mahindra Quotes
I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.
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Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*
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Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.
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I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
