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For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
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I wanted to get into medical college.
Kripa Mahalingam, Secret diary of an entrepreneur, Outlook Business, 24 March 2018 source ↗
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Edward Fox
British actor
To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
Cheryl Strayed
Author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
By the time I was 19, I was saying, “I’m going to be a writer. This is my path.”
A foreign correspondent.
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View profile →The only way to de-stress for me is to take one or two days off and then come back.
And actually they are right, because I have a real fear of blood.
As a businesswoman, I admire Indra Nooyi, because of the way she is transforming Pepsi into a 'healthy' fast food organisation
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Shweta Punj, Most Powerful Women in Business 2011, Business Today, 18 September 2011
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But this is a herd-like mentality as they only back e-tailing and not life science ventures based on genomics et cetera.
I guess my learning about regulatory strategies is much better now, and I may have designed many clinical trials differently - for example, oral insulin.
I introspect a lot and keep asking myself questions on what is right and wrong.
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