Moyez G. Vassanji Quotes
Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.
Quotes to Explore
-
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
-
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
-
Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.
-
I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
-
I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
-
I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
-
The only sin is the sin of being born.
-
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
-
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
-
I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
-
I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
-
I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.
-
The White House is a strange place.
-
As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then when you're with your home girls, you're saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you're speaking the way that you're comfortable with.
-
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
-
I feel more like an American citizen now than I ever had, and it's artistically fulfilling.
-
I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
-
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
-
Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that I'm not in because it's just so much more exciting as a fan to me to watch the show as it's happening.
-
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
-
I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.
-
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
-
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
-
Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.
