Mechai Viravaidya Quotes

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.

Mechai Viravaidya

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
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  • Birth: January 17, 1941

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I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.

Stephen Pagliuca

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I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Silvia Colloca

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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

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The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.

Roy Clark

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What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.

Mike D

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I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

Michelle Dockery

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Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.

Dennis Muren

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Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

Christopher Walken

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It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

Brantley Gilbert

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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Bryan Adams

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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

Bruce Beresford

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Detroit was a bad situation for me.

Allen Iverson

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