Azim Premji Quotes
You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I wish I sang better.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow...
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I really love being a character actor.
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You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.