Gita Gopinath Quotes

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

A life-tenured position in a democracy is an odd thing.

It's always appealed to me do to something that is whatever 'steady' means in this business. That's what I've kind of searched for, because, having a family, it's the best situation.

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a 'teacher of the year' award is the kiss of death for non-tenured professors.

Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.

It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.

It's a very different feeling to work on a show with a future.

I feel really good at United and I hope to stay here for a long time.

Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree.

I don't want to be jumping from team to team.

I could very well see myself ending my professional career at Kaiserslautern.

I went through 15 years as a coach at Spurs working under seven, eight different managers. And every time a manager went, you weren't sure whether you'd still be there. Some people might worry about these things but I never have.