Azim Premji Quotes

This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.

Azim Premji

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• I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

  

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• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

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• Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

  

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• At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.

  

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• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  

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• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  

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• The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  

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• The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

  

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• I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

  

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• It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.

  

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• It is G.E. Moore at the spinet.

  

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• Dubuffet marvels at the desert as a chaotic palimpsest, filled with marks and signs ..like an immense notebook of disorganization, a notebook of improvisation.. ..an elementary school blackboard full of scribbles..

  

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• For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

  

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• "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

  

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• This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.

  

  Azim Premji