Lilly Singh Quotes
When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends... no one could relate to what I was doing. When I'm in L.A., I constantly feel like I'm keeping up with people, and I love that.
Quotes to Explore
-
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
-
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
-
I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
-
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
-
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
-
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
-
I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
-
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
-
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
-
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
-
Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
-
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
-
I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
-
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
-
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
-
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
-
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
-
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
-
Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.
-
The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
-
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
-
Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.
-
I went to India, lived, and studied.
-
When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends... no one could relate to what I was doing. When I'm in L.A., I constantly feel like I'm keeping up with people, and I love that.
