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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"
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"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
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"Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another."
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"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"
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"He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing."
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"It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father."
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"And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet."
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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
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