When we first moved to Scarborough, there was one Sri Lankan grocery store – now there’s a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that’s very different from the way it used to be. – Shyam Selvadurai
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. – Thomas Sowell
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free. – Sophia Amoruso
In a way, perhaps, there’s an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you’re the storyteller, and you’re pulling out this universal story. – Sarah Gavron
I was good at math, math was my thing – but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly. – Sam Trammell
Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There’s definitely a way to go about approaching it. – Tom Weston-Jones
Cricketers have to perform in front of millions, and there are no retakes. If then you become a hero, you deserve all the accolades coming your way. – Sushant Singh Rajput
I don’t consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. – Steven Soderbergh
In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue. – Vladimir Putin
People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can’t really give you a viable reason why they feel that way. – Serj Tankian
I have this concept that I call ‘Combo Meals.’ The idea is that I start with the kids’ meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I’m not making two entirely separate dishes. I’m just simply adding on to what I’m already making. – Tamra Davis
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. – Smedley Butler
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. – William Ralph Inge
Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don’t stop observing that thing, looking for a better way. – William Kamkwamba
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here. – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols’ ‘Silkwood.’ The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way. – Saffron Burrows
When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. – Steven Spielberg
Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live. – Stephen Morris
The few times I’ve tried to write original screenplays, it’s a difficult process because I just don’t feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel. – Tom Perrotta
Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the ‘Saw’ thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out. – Tobin Bell
