Chanda Kochhar Quotes
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.
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We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
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I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.
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I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.
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I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.
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We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.
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I think everybody wants GST.
