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In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on 'Tashan', a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

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We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Tim O'Reilly

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The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent', in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

Veronica Roth

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

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We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.

John Burnside

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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Barry Commoner

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The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.

Gabrielle Bernstein

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Winston Churchill

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As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

John Burnside

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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

James Joseph Sylvester

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

George A. Moore

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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

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And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Robert Fulghum

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I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria — it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Everyone loves a winner. That's just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had.

Lewis Hamilton

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It is not easy to be a pioneer — but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Elizabeth Blackwell

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There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

John Keegan

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If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

Snoop Dogg

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