Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw quote: "I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country."

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I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright pe...
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My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model ...
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If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart....
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It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepr...
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Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with ...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and ca...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piram...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat peo...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian ...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infra...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of larg...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and e...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

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KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scient...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

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JOYESH MAZUMDAR

If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that.
UDAY KIRAN

We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do i...
UDAY KIRAN

I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the...
UDAY KIRAN

People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period...
UDAY KIRAN

Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
UDAY KIRAN

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
UDAY KIRAN

I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
UDAY KIRAN

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film...
UDAY KIRAN

I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this ac...
UDAY KIRAN

I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
UDAY KIRAN

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, ...
UDAY KIRAN

I don't let anything kill my spirit.
UDAY KIRAN

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
KIRAN DESAI

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
KIRAN DESAI

I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, sh...
KIRAN AHLUWALIA

I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.
UDAY KIRAN

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI

But so fluid a thing was love.It wasn't firm,he was learning, it wasn't a scripture;it was a wobblin...
KIRAN DESAI

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of Indi...
KIRAN DESAI

I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll...
KIRAN BEDI

Life is nothing but an empty book, where a new chapter is written every moment, some chapters are fu...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

Social networking profiles are pedagogue of economics for most of them portray the perfect example o...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

In Pakistan, it was a stop-gap arrangement. Here we would definitely go with a specialist opener.
KIRAN MORE

The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.
KIRAN JOSHI

In my heart lives a promise to rise to find the brightest star when darkness falls
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanw...
KIRAN DESAI

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happi...
KIRAN SHAIKH

Aaj Humne Yaadon ke sunehray rethon ka ek sauda kiya. Gairon ko apne gham ke daastaan sunakar, jeene...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

"World is nothing but a weird cluster of sperms in an permanent state of suspended animation filled ...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

Failure on merits is more virtuous than a victory through deceit and fraud.
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

In life we all are and have to be fighters, whether to be a street fighter or a prized fighter is pu...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

Humans are Social Animals , Social by Need and Animals By Instinct.
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

I don't think there is going to be any significant outcome from a big summit as WSIS. But I really h...
KIRAN KARNIK

We are not against safeguards for L1 visas, but new restrictions should not be adverse. We agree L1 ...
KIRAN KARNIK

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...
KIRAN DESAI

Man ought to fear the darkness, not that surrounds him, but that which breeds within his heart
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

“Never would have silence been so well comprehended if language was to give credence to understand...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

No work is too big or too small, if you pay the right price
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

Empty brains can be depository of knowledge or can be reserved for asininity,choice is purely person...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

Inspiration to me are those who could take me beyond the dogma of mortal existence and precept me to...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

Mark of free virtual world is its free and downloadable, porn, knowledge and software.
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN

This trend is particularly heartening as benefits of co-producing are immense.
KIRAN KARNIK

Sadness was so claustrophobic.
KIRAN DESAI

Forget about the money for a moment. Lose yourself in the wilderness, listen to the music of the sof...
KIRAN BISHT

NASSCOM and the IT industry will work, in collaboration with the Police and government, towards tigh...
KIRAN KARNIK

It is great raw material, but only 30 percent of this pool is ready to plunge straight in and delive...
KIRAN KARNIK

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.
KIRAN DESAI

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian musi...
KIRAN AHLUWALIA

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely res...
KIRAN DESAI

The most difficult thing to do after a life well lived is to sit down and type it all out. To start ...
KIRAN MANRAL

Holding hands in love is underrated, while sex is overrated. Don't you think so?
KIRAN JOSHI

The judge got down on his knees, and he prayed to God, he, Jemubhai Popatlal the agnostic, who had m...
KIRAN DESAI

The cow was not an Indian cow; therefore it was not holy?
KIRAN DESAI

That very afternoon the police arrived at Cho Oyu in a line of toad-colored jeeps that appeared thro...
KIRAN DESAI

All of the third-world flights docked here, families waiting days for their connections, squatting o...
KIRAN DESAI

Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expand...
KIRAN DESAI

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...
KIRAN DESAI

All day, the colours had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flan...
KIRAN DESAI

Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust wi...
KIRAN DESAI

Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain.
KIRAN DESAI

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their h...
KIRAN DESAI

He knew what his father thought: that immigration, so often presented as a heroic act, could just as...
KIRAN DESAI

He wasn't a bad person. He didn't want to fight. The trouble was that he'd tried to be part of the l...
KIRAN DESAI

What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c...
KIRAN DESAI

He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself cou...
KIRAN DESAI

Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.
KIRAN DESAI

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. Bu...
KIRAN DESAI

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was c...
KIRAN DESAI

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would ...
KIRAN DESAI

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wep...
KIRAN DESAI

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? H...
KIRAN DESAI

The fact was that one was left empty-handed. There was no system to soothe the unfairness of things;...
KIRAN DESAI

Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory e...
KIRAN DESAI

A journey once begun, has no end
KIRAN DESAI

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flank...
KIRAN DESAI

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.
KIRAN DESAI

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?
KIRAN DESAI

Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them.
KIRAN NAGARKAR

My passion is philanthropy. His passion may be politics.
KIRAN PATEL

Any attraction that could bring people here would be a positive thing.
KIRAN PATEL

There was a long discussion on middle order batting and we thought that this is the best team we can...
KIRAN MORE

He has done well in domestic cricket and has experience as well.
KIRAN MORE

He has done very well in domestic cricket and his experience will be crucial in Pakistan.
KIRAN MORE

He was always in the scheme of things and we had only been trying others against Sri Lanka, which is...
KIRAN MORE

He has gone to Australia for treatment.
KIRAN MORE

Patel has been keeping well and also chipping in with the bat in recent domestic matches so we decid...
KIRAN MORE

He is playing. He has been cleared by his doctor.
KIRAN MORE

Our middle-order is very strong. We have some concerns only with the opening slot.
KIRAN MORE

We have some plans for the team, you don't need to know everything about it.
KIRAN MORE

Just making regulations for IPR is not enough. Its enforcement and conviction are also important to ...
KIRAN KARNIK

The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people. They will have to e...
KIRAN KARNIK

The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people - they will have eit...
KIRAN KARNIK

I expect a bigger horde of students to arrive next year because the ones here said they had a great ...
KIRAN KARNIK

India has very good teachers, especially in math and science. Also, these subjects are culture-free ...
KIRAN KARNIK

The intent is there, but implementation is lacking,
KIRAN KARNIK

There is a charm to letters and cards that emails and smses can’t ever replicate, you cannot inhal...
KIRAN MANRAL

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
KIRAN DESAI

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
KIRAN BEDI

friends are like food, many types but only few we like and a whole lot more to explore
KIRAN KUMAR. R

Inside feelings are not get succeeded,until when it is exploded...
KIRAN KUMAR A

Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w...
KIRAN KUMAR A

Blossoming flowers are your smiles they are with me though i'm away from you miles
SHASHI KIRAN JILLEPALLY

A guy with no goal in teenage is like a boat with no compass in the mid ocean
SHASHI KIRAN JILLEPALLY

Love made me a poet, detachment made me a writer
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI

Talent, facebook and twitter can take you anywhere.
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI

“Three things tell about a girl: her eyes, her friends and her favorite quotes.”
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI

Always judge someone by their heart and emotions, not by the words they say.
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI

There is nothing like we will loose today because we lost yesterday and don't loose today to win tom...
SHASHI KIRAN JILLEPALLY

Be free, and live life fully.
CAROLINE SHAW

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
IRWIN SHAW

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
IRWIN SHAW

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
IRWIN SHAW

It's those damn critics again.
IRWIN SHAW

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
IRWIN SHAW

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
IRWIN SHAW

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
IRWIN SHAW

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
IRWIN SHAW

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that...
IRWIN SHAW

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would ...
IRWIN SHAW

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous app...
IRWIN SHAW

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
IRWIN SHAW

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is ...
IRWIN SHAW

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
IRWIN SHAW

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictor...
IRWIN SHAW

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occur...
IRWIN SHAW

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
IRWIN SHAW

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
IRWIN SHAW

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
IRWIN SHAW

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the abil...
IRWIN SHAW

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
IRWIN SHAW

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, h...
IRWIN SHAW

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
IRWIN SHAW

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
IRWIN SHAW

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I...
IRWIN SHAW

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
IRWIN SHAW

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
TOMMY SHAW

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.
VINESSA SHAW

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
IRWIN SHAW

People do no change with the times, they change the times.
P.K. SHAW

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.
P.K. SHAW

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.
P.K. SHAW

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched re...
TOMMY SHAW

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
FIONA SHAW

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.
TOMMY SHAW

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great ...
CAROLINE SHAW

Everyone's been on a ramen noodle diet once or twice.
KIM SHAW

That, fundamentally, is our problem. We need to expand.
BEN SHAW

I think that they will find they come to love the center and the people who will be there. We are an...
BEN SHAW

Unlike most commercial construction, we do not begin construction until we have planning and design ...
BEN SHAW

The permits, no question, they need to be re-applied for.
BEN SHAW

You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things...
BERNARD SHAW

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
BERNARD SHAW

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fi...
BERNARD SHAW

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn
BERNARD SHAW

When you're seeking justice there are no shortcuts. If you were to trade places with either side, yo...
ANDREW SHAW

had decided to start another trophy trial.
ANDREW SHAW

Many of the princess's personal friends who rallied behind him and were prepared to give evidence fo...
ANDREW SHAW

It's a waste of money sending you to prison but I have no option.
ANDREW SHAW

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to pla...
TOMMY SHAW

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.
ARTIE SHAW

You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.
ARTIE SHAW

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.
ARTIE SHAW

The last popular song that I loved was 'Living La Vida Loca' by Ricky Martin,
ARTIE SHAW

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a do...
FIONA SHAW

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge ...
CAROLINE SHAW

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in ...
FIONA SHAW

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's a...
IRWIN SHAW

This year's been a constant teaching session with the guys. He showed a great deal of patience this ...
BRIAN SHAW

We know that we determine our own destiny. We just have to take care of our own business, and we can...
BRIAN SHAW

I'm optimistic that we'll make a profit for our first year here. We've been breaking even for 10 yea...
BRIAN SHAW

He's one of the guys who's familiar with Phil's system, ... Phil's comfortable with him and knows wh...
BRIAN SHAW

The entire team did a great job of staying focused on clients, and not getting distracted. The quali...
BRIAN SHAW

He told me to get after Gary [Payton], to make sure he was fired up.
BRIAN SHAW

But then he reminded us that there was only one guy who was on the right side both times. Him.
BRIAN SHAW

I'm glad he called, ... This is an opportunity for our school and community to help those who are in...
BRIAN SHAW

We've sold out every year we've been here.
BRIAN SHAW

I think Rick puts a lot of pressure on himself anyway and I think that's one of the reasons he hasn'...
BRAD SHAW

It looked like what we pictured from this team at the start of the season. The difference is believi...
BRAD SHAW

It's like jumping on a treadmill when it's going eight miles an hour. When he got off, it was going ...
BRAD SHAW

I think we have holes we still need to fill work-ethic wise. Power play is one of them.
BRAD SHAW

It's a tall order when you've hovered around .500 all year to suddenly start thinking about running ...
BRAD SHAW

We wanted to come out skating. We did, but didn't get rewarded for it. We generated a lot of chances...
BRAD SHAW

I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.

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I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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