Kapil Sibal Quotes
You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.
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When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'
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Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.
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What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
