Saroo Brierley Quotes

When I first started coming to Calcutta, it brought back a lot of memories... the hardships I went through, the situations I was placed in, and the possibilities of those situations becoming so hostile.

Saroo Brierley

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I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.

Jesse Plemons

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'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'

Jennifer Chiaverini

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I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

McKayla Maroney

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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

John Jay Chapman

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I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.

Robert Lepage

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The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it is about the actions you take as the leader of your business.

Michael Gerber

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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Steve Harvey

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In my mind, I'm still this kid from St. Louis, Missouri, that nobody really knows.

Sterling K. Brown

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I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.

Ruth Rendell

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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

Mason Cooley

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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Dick Cavett

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You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

Christopher Meloni

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