Azim Premji Quotes
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I studied Morse code.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
