Azim Premji Quotes
I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.Azim Premji
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
Ma Jun -
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
Kangana Ranaut -
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
Carlene Carter -
I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne -
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
Gail Porter -
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer -
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken -
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. Forster
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
Gail Sheehy -
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
Barry Diller -
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
Yochai Benkler -
I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry -
Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
Ione Skye
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale -
I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.
Jhonen Vasquez -
The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
Sade Adu -
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
Matt Mullenweg -
I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.
Azim Premji