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Quotes About India

We've always been influenced by some of India's greatest minds.
~ Ajay Piramal
FTII had people from all over India and abroad and they had a different mindset. They would talk about world cinema and there I was - the only foreign films I had watched were probably Arnold Schwarzenegger's and dubbed in Hindi at that!
~ Jaideep Ahlawat
The mindset in India is to get an education that will secure a job, and then think about how to get a particular salary. We're used to that kind of a life, and that's how we bring up our children.
~ Ravichandran Ashwin
ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
It is the duty of the Defence Ministry and the forces to keep India safe.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
A number of governments, such as India and the Philippines, routinely opposed certain initiatives, preferring to elevate either solidarity among developing countries (and their collective desire to fend off criticism as unacceptable intervention) or the principle of state sovereignty over the protection of human beings.
~ Thomas G. Weiss
The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.
~ Thomas Merton
As an entrepreneur in India put it: 'Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
~ Thomas Sowell
China and India have been striking examples of poor countries whose abandonment of severe international trade and investment restrictions led to dramatic increases in their economic growth rates, which in turn led to tens of millions of their citizens rising out of poverty.
~ Thomas Sowell
U ovih 6 mjeseci odkako je u Indiji svaki put kad vidi lj bi?a da služe kao tegle?a gotovo kao sami nosa?i gkao da smatraju da je to posao kao i svaki drugi, a Amir ju je upozorio da bi suvišna obazrivost dovela jedino do toga da ostanu bez hljeba. Napola uvjerena pomirila se sa tim pokušavaju?i osmjesima i nagradama da ublaži svoj osje?aj krivice.
~ Kenizé Mourad
Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.
~ Camron Wright
Historically, tantra denotes a particular style or genre of spiritual teachings beginning to achieve prominence in India about fifteen-hundred years ago—teachings that affirm the continuity between Spirit and matter.
~ Georg Feuerstein
I remember my England debut, in 2002. It came in Jersey, in a triangular tournament with New Zealand and India. To say that it did not generate great local interest is putting it mildly: our first game, against India, attracted a handful of spectators.
~ Isa Guha
In 'Purab Aur Paschim,' there's one of the nicer patriotic scenes which is patriotic without going jingoistic. There's a scene set in a rotating restaurant, where Pran, who has left India, is completely running India down and Manoj Kumar is taking up for India. And there's that song 'Jab Zero Diya.'
~ Farah Khan
I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.
~ Shakuntala Devi
I still remember when I debuted for India in One-dayers and got out on zero against Australia only.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.
~ Jairam Ramesh
I feel, at times, women in India go beyond their comfort zone just to clad the trend, and that automatically becomes a faux pas. If you are not comfortable with something, please don't wear it.
~ Kalki Koechlin
Depending on which of the many hydrogeological zones of India you tap into, the water can either be easy to reach or incredibly difficult to suck out.
~ Rohini Nilekani
I don't know why I chose to make my debut with 'Dil Maange More.' The film had three leading ladies - Tulip Joshi, Ayesha Takia and me - opposite Shahid Kapoor. I was fresh to Bollywood at that time because I had just come back from England and had no clue about hero-heroine dynamics in India.
~ Soha Ali Khan
The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.
~ Henry Charles Carey
There are not enough turning pitches in India, which is why we are not getting good spinners.
~ Gautam Gambhir
I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!
~ Bipasha Basu
The only real connection I have with Indian fans is through Twitter, where I try to answer as many questions as I can, or if they write anything nice, I do try and let them know if - that I liked it. I do get a bunch of people from India tweeting to me.
~ Rick Hoffman