Top 100 Mehta Quotes
#1. My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
Zarin Mehta
#2. The more you give, the more you want to do it - as do others around you. It's like going to the gym. If you've been working out your kindness muscles, you get stronger at it. - Nipun Mehta
Adam M. Grant
#3. All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City
Dinesh D'Souza
#4. In 2008, I just decided that there will come a time when I am dead and gone, and I only have a body of work to show. That was when I did films like 'Last Lear' and Deepa Mehta's 'Heaven On Earth.' They were serious roles.
Preity Zinta
#5. Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments.
~ Ananya Mehta
Kirtida Gautam
#6. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.
Deepa Mehta
#7. I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
Zubin Mehta
#8. There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
Zubin Mehta
#9. I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
Zubin Mehta
#10. Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
Zubin Mehta
#11. New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta
#12. Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.
Hemant Mehta
#13. Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
Zubin Mehta
#14. Most people don't fall in love, they just love the idea that they have fallen in love.
Shon Mehta
#15. Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
Hemant Mehta
#16. I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
Zubin Mehta
#17. People now a days are in business of minding other's business.
Kartik Mehta
#18. Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.
Shon Mehta
#19. I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
Zubin Mehta
#20. For me, concept of death works as a liberator from anxiety -- no matter whatever is happening, its all going to end when we die.
Shon Mehta
#21. People can believe in their own progress and success. They can even believe in strangers success. But when it comes to success of anyone from their social circle, they think, it must be by fluke and the other person doesn't deserve it.
Shon Mehta
#22. New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
Zubin Mehta
#23. The church is the only authorized institution for the proclamation of the gospel
Stanley Mehta
#24. It is the sexual frenzy of a closed society, and the women of Golpitha are the gutters for these men's emissions.
Suketu Mehta
#25. It is up to us, whether to be happy for what we have, or to be unhappy for what we don't have.
Shon Mehta
#26. Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
Zubin Mehta
#27. Be the best at whatever you do, but first make sure that what you are doing is for the best.
Shon Mehta
#28. Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
Zubin Mehta
#29. In the looking, I found the cities within me.
Suketu Mehta
#30. My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed ... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.
Deepa Mehta
#31. I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.
Zarin Mehta
#32. I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta
#33. I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
Zarin Mehta
#35. I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
Zubin Mehta
#36. I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
Zubin Mehta
#38. The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
Zubin Mehta
#39. I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.
Deepa Mehta
#40. The problem with inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish.
Shon Mehta
#41. Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
Zubin Mehta
#42. Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read.
Kartik Mehta
#44. What is Spiritual Littering?
Ridiculous teachings given by ignorant, self proclaimed spiritual leaders.
Shon Mehta
#45. I have absolutely no problem with anyone's life choices. What bothers me greatly is, when they try to force those life choices on others, in any manner.
Shon Mehta
#46. Even though ashrams ... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.
Deepa Mehta
#47. Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
Zubin Mehta
#48. All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
Zubin Mehta
#49. We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.
Deepa Mehta
#50. Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.
Kartik Mehta
#51. I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
Zubin Mehta
#52. You did good, you did good again. But then, you did bad, and suddenly you were never any good.
Shon Mehta
#54. If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
Zubin Mehta
#55. Spiritual littering contaminates knowledge.
Shon Mehta
#56. Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.
Ved Mehta
#57. Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is.
Hemant Mehta
#58. I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
Zarin Mehta
#59. The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
Zubin Mehta
#60. Sacrifice is the most beautiful situation and solution for all social problems
Kartik Mehta
#61. In a way, our stories have the same beginning and ending -- we all are born, and we all die. What happens in the middle sets us apart.
Shon Mehta
#62. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.
Nalin Mehta
#63. Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
Zubin Mehta
#64. It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.
Suketu Mehta
#65. As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
Zubin Mehta
#66. Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.
Shon Mehta
#67. If freedom is the basis of life, then love is the basis of real freedom, the capacity to love without bonds is the freedom of the highest order.
Vivek Mehta
#68. I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
Zubin Mehta
#69. I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
Zubin Mehta
#70. It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up.
Suketu Mehta
#71. This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back.
Suketu Mehta
#72. I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.
Ajay Mehta
#73. I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.
Deepa Mehta
#74. An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
Zubin Mehta
#75. It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
Zubin Mehta
#76. Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
Zubin Mehta
#77. I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
Zubin Mehta
#78. In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
Zubin Mehta
#79. The gang war will never end. Because at it's core , it is not the gangsters against the police or the gangster against another. It is a young man with a Mauser against history personal and political, it is revolution one murder at a time.
Suketu Mehta
#80. We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
Zubin Mehta
#81. I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
Zubin Mehta
#82. Radicalism,like stamp collecting,has its time and place.Perhaps,it is useful in one's youth,but you have to move on.
Vinod Mehta
#84. I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.
Deepa Mehta
#85. My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
Ajay Mehta
#86. I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Zubin Mehta
#87. For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.
Shon Mehta
#88. I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
Zubin Mehta
#89. Behave like you never care even if you are most caring one.
Kartik Mehta
#90. You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
Zubin Mehta
#92. Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.
Zubin Mehta
#93. When I was young, I thought I was a very smart and learned person.
But now, the more I read, the more I learn, the more I think, the humbler I become.
Shon Mehta
#94. May everybody get whatever good they wish for!
Shon Mehta
#95. The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.
Gita Mehta
#96. Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in school combined.
Sneha Mehta
#97. Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,
only few of them have opportunities to follow them.
Kartik Mehta
#98. Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
Zubin Mehta
#99. Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.
Hemant Mehta
#100. My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
Zubin Mehta
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