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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• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

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• No one ever recognizes me.

  

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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.

  

  Anand Mahindra
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