Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Vivek Wadhwa

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KnowledgeParentsLimitsGeneration

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

Joanne Harris

AlonePeopleRevealMentalLeft

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

John Money

BestPeopleLivingUnderstandWay

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'

Angela Featherstone

AgingStatisticsKnowOutSystem

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Siri Hustvedt

FaceBadBooksTendencyFantasies

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.

Tom Colicchio

FoodSweetEasyYouMouthKind

There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.

Tom Ford

GoodBestMenForwardSuitsPicture

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

Rodrigo Duterte

FaithTrustGovernmentProblemReal

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

StrongPhysicsWithoutRiceIdea

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

Mick Jones

YourselfWritingSmallYouKnowBig

For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.

Louis Theroux

MeGlassesImportantEverythingWear

Bieber's like my brother at this point.

Post Malone

BrotherPointLike

When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.

Paul Walker

GirlMeDamnWhyUnderstandPretty

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