Azim Premji Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
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I'm pretty good about getting some exercise every day - well, most days. The secret for me was to put the elliptical in front of the TV.
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If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
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People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
