Arvind Gupta Quotes
The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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The game can be quite dangerous when you look at certain injuries, especially head injuries.
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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
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If you want to win the World Cup, you need to play against the best national teams in the world.
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If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
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The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.
