QUOTA of QUOTES
“I am not going to say,
‘Let’s go out there and just
earn six figures. I am going
to say, ‘Let’s go out there and
fix six of the world’s biggest
problems.’”
– Angad
Singh Padda, 23, giving a
graduation speech at U.C.
Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The Punjab native
graduated with summa cum laude honors and was
hired by JP Morgan as an investment broker.
“The size of the majority shows
that the people have chosen hope over
fear and progress over stagnation.”
– Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Britain’s
first turban-wearing MP, who won
34,170 votes for the Labour Party in
the town of Slough, England, more
than twice as many as his closest rival. (PTI)
“Do you ask the same question
to a male cricketer? Do you ask them
who their favorite female cricketer
is?”
– Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj, responding to a reporter’s
question about her favorite male cricketer. (Rediff.com)
“You serve at the pleasure of the president;
you don’t serve the president; you serve
the public, your oath, and the Constitution.”
– Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney
in New York, on why it was wrong for
President Trump to expect loyalty from
him. Trump fired Bharara on March 11. (The Daily Show)
“There is such little representation out there for South Asians, and especially Tamils and queer South Asians, in the Anglophone literary landscape. I wanted to write myself into existence, if you will. I wanted to reach back in time and tell the young me, ‘You’re not alone.’”
– Writer S. J. Sindu, whose debut novel Marriage of a Thousand Lies is narrated by a queer Sri Lankan Tamil woman living in the metro Boston area. (The Aerogram)
“Like all good Bollywood films, we
have to learn to share the music and
realize that we’re all in this dance together.”
– JJ Kapur, a high school
student from West Des Moines,
Iowa, offering a message of unity
in a speech that won him the original
oratory championship at the
National Speech and Debate Tournament.
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
[Comments? Contributions? Please email us at melvin@melvindurai.com. We welcome jokes, quotes, online clips, and more.]
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