Azim Premji Quotes

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

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• I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Where

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
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• Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Future

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Thought

• I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Know
  • Few

• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Society
  • Marriage

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Times
  • Often

• How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

  

  Magnus Larsson
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  • Desert
  • Within

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
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  • Pain

• I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Up
  • Think
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• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
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• Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Prayer
  • End
  • Ready

• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Democracy
  • Prince

• People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

  

  Bob Weinstein
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • God
  • Different
  • Women

• Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Because
  • Finding

• If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • High
  • Myself

• The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Country
  • High