QUOTA of QUOTES
“Sure, there are
plenty of other celebrity-endorsed saris on the market, but do any of those
bozos have sari in their name?”
—Actor and comedian Aziz Ansari, promoting saris
adorned with his image in a hilarious spoof on the Conan O’Brien Show.
“It’s like I
woke up one day and said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ It was almost like I
didn’t have a choice. It was truly a life-changing realization. I don’t think I
could call it anything else.”
—Actor and singer Suraj Partha, 16, on why he became
an entertainer. Partha plays a role in the movie Ender’s Game. (The
Commerical Appeal)
“HIV should not
come in the way of one’s right to dream.”
—Anil Valiv, an Indian government
officer who founded PositiveSaathi.com, a free matrimonial website for people
with HIV. (BBC News)
“There’s a huge
disconnect between what our brightest minds are studying and what they might
study if they had been given the space to broaden their academic interests,
instead of narrow them.”
—Pramath
Raj Sinha, spokesman for Ashoka University, being built near
Delhi and touted as the first private Ivy League-caliber liberal arts
institution in India. (The New York Times)
“I would say
that the ‘free market’ is basically free for the super-wealthy, and extremely
un-free for the rest of us.”
—Kshama
Sawant, an India-born economics professor who recently
became the first avowed socialist elected to Seattle’s City Council. (Salon)
“Women venturing
out to earn are a threat to centuries of male dominance. And film after film
reinforces this stereotype through the absence of working women or in
projecting one as a cause of marital strife.”
—Actress Sharmila Tagore, giving the Justice
Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on the representation of women
in Indian cinema. (Outlook India)
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