Persis Khambatta Quotes

Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

Persis Khambatta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: October 2, 1950 - August 18, 1998

Topics

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I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

Jill Scott

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Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.

Andrew Zimmern

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I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.

Maynard Webb

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I would hate to meet myself at 15.

John Oliver

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I remember going to McDonald's for the first time probably when I was in college. And then I remember going and visiting a friend in Wyoming, and he said, 'We're going to do something special. We're going to McDonald's.'

John Lee Hancock

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Just because your body is losing inches doesn't mean you're losing weight or vice versa. It's not about the weight: it's about building lean muscle, which is going to increase your metabolism and then allow you to lose weight quicker.

Anna Kaiser

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What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

Stanley Donen

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To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

Trevor Paglen

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I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Robbie Fowler

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I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Rita Rudner

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I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

Rory Stewart

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