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Amish Tripathi Quotes

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: indian
Birth: October 18, 1974

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History Job Wise People Growing Up

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Me Television News Why Over Chain

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.

Day School Effort Doing Acting Kind

Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.

Future Health Diet Your Density

When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.

Car Great People You Want See

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

Age Tomorrow Looking Back Looking

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Learning Childhood School People Me

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

World Reading Said Aspire Count Get

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

Rufus Wainwright

Father Myself Guitar Player Consider

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Leader Vision Direction Hood Manager

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Live Time Man War Results Election

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Good Me Story Know Important Most

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

Women Experience Job People Think

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