Adam Rickitt Quotes
Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
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Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
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Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.
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Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
