Kapil Sibal Quotes
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
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The fact that, almost a century after refrigeration made salt-preserved foods irrelevant, we are still eating them demonstrates the affection we have for salt.
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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
