Kapil Sibal Quotes
We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
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I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.
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It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
