I am a Mumbaikar. It has a special place in my heart.
Adnan Sami
Recitation: by Male by Female
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
EducationFearFightSecurityOver
Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.
John Varvatos
FunnySuccessI AmPeopleMeBrand
Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head - as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
LiveAgeResearchThoughtGrowLong
I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.
Tommy Shaw
AlwaysBigBeenSuckerChorus
Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.
Robert Zubrin
AgricultureLandOilResourcesWere
Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.
Rohan Marley
CommunityGrowing UpHandsGrowing
It's no big deal if I disappoint strangers.
Lizzie Armitstead
StrangersBigDealDisappoint
I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.
Jay Ryan
CharacterBeautifulHairFamousLake
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
LightSlaveryLiteratureBodyBad
In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.
Arielle Kebbel
HomeWorldFarmPerfectGoOff
Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
PoliticsThinkingYouDignityYour
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
Suzanne Farrell
MomentDoingYouLivingUngrateful
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