Bangalore Quotes

• I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

  Thomas Friedman

  India, Valleys, World

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• I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

  Thomas Friedman

  People, Tools, Said

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• If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!

  Trilok Gurtu

  Traffic, Stage, Instruments

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• We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, Believe

  Remarks to the Joint Session of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, India, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 08, 2010.

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• We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Children

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Doctors, Office Work

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• Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Hard Work, Mps, Needs

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• To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

  Steven Rattner

  Jobs, Business Success, Doe

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• Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Healthcare, Centre

  "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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• One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the young woman from a nearby village, who had been hired to baby sit newborn twins, suddenly said after two weeks of work: 'I'm sorry, this is too much work, I'm going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Baby, Jobs, Sorry

  "Literary Getaways: Book Your Travel. Literally". "Talk Of The Nation" with Andrea Seabrook, www.npr.org. June 16, 2011.

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• In particular, recently Belgium has banned the sale of a cellphone to a 7-year-old. Turkey has banned ads and advertising to children. So has France for children under 12. India has bans in certain areas. In Bangalore, you cannot sell a cellphone to someone younger than 16. So in different parts of the world, they've taken different steps.

  Devra Davis

  Children, Taken, Years

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

  Deepika Padukone

  Years, Shy, Few Friends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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