Top 37 Nandan Nilekani Quotes
#1. Throughout life, we are put into boxes to categorize how people see and know us. This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read the labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what's inside
Gaby Rodriguez
#2. If you're lucky enough to experience love, what you find is that it can sustain you through the most difficult times.
Denise Di Novi
#3. Young would-be novelists and poets believe that art is eternal. Au contraire: we are in the business of ephemera, the era of floating islands of trash, and most of the things we feel deeply and inscribe on the page will disappear.
Julie Schumacher
#4. You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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#5. My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
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#6. What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#7. My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
Joanna Trollope
#8. I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
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#10. I don't care who you are, life has challenges.
Tom Cruise
#11. I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.
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#12. Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
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#13. When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
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#14. Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
William Wordsworth
#15. I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.
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#16. I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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#17. What business had she to try to capture life and light?
Ann Brashares
#19. The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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#20. It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
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#21. meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved.
Tess Gerritsen
#22. Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
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#23. My background is putting in large systems that change lives ... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
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#24. I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
John O. Brennan
#25. We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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#26. My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
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#27. Forget about writing to Penthouse.
This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.
Suzanne Brockmann
#28. Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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#29. The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
Michelle Alexander
#30. I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
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#31. I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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#32. Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
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#33. I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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#34. Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
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#35. That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.
Ryan Stiles
#36. Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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