Jairam Ramesh Quotes

#1. WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

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#2. Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

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#3. India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

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#4. Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Ringo Starr

#5. I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

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#6. Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

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#7. I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.

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#9. There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

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#10. I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.

Berlie Doherty

#11. I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

Zoe Sugg

#12. Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

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#13. You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he'd thought much about them at the time.

Margaret Atwood

#14. I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

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#15. I never realized it until I watched an interview, but sometimes my brain stutters between thoughts, and for some reason it comes out as an 'ummmm.' I'm hoping it's because I'm so smart, and there's just too much information to process, but it's more than likely just because it's a small processor.

Justin Baldoni

#16. Appleblossom can't believe the taste of the dark square. Is tehre a way to describe this morsel of goodness? It is so sweet adn smooth. It makes a green snail seem like an old pinecone seed, and every possum knows that a green snail is fantastic eating.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#17. If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

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#18. The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Todd Akin

#19. India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

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#20. The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

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#21. The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.

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#22. How much does the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones remember of the heart of the star in which they were born? And if they can forget that terrible, magnificent heat and light, what hope do I have of being more than an unremarkable footnote to you?

Seanan McGuire

#23. Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.

Josh Gad