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Jai Ganesh

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Chosen Quotes - IV

Chosen Quotes - IV

1. Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. - Ian Botham

2. To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. - Charles Babbage

3. I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous. - Kate Moss

4. The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen. - Lech Walesa

5. When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. - Aung San Suu Kyi

6. You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected. - Lech Walesa

7. I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do. - Jessica Lange

8. I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy. - Penelope Cruz.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.