Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.
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I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
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Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.