Anand Mahindra Quotes
My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
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Bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
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I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
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Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.
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My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
