India Quotes
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
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It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
