Srikumar Rao Quotes

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.

Srikumar Rao

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: April 11, 1951

Topics

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My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.

Anja Rubik

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It's usually good news when people call collectively.

Michael C. Hall

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David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.

Steve Erickson

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Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Sophie Hannah

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I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.

Tricia Helfer

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I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.

Trevor Noah

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I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

Tony Abbott

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I actually have videos on my phone of me interviewing people and asking them what they thought of the new Spider-Man in 'Civil War.' They were like, 'Oh he's great. I love him,' and then some people were like, 'Nah, I don't love him. he's not great' - and I was standing right in front of them!

Tom Holland

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And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

Jason Reitman

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If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Chris Cornell

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People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.

Ariel Levy

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The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

Antonio Banderas

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