You gotta have WANNA. If you have WANNA you can do anything!

I am a dot. It is only when I choose to stand alone, that I become a period.

Only being similar can encourage one to be different.

You gotta have WANNA. If you have WANNA you can do anything!

I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness it is more deeply a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics one people one land one truth the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

To live is to be marked. To live is to change to acquire the words of a story and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

I know how I shop and how I am inspired to buy things, and the majority of it is from Instagram. I look at people like Yasmin Sewell and Leandra Medine from the Man Repeller, as well as the countless models that have really cool street style, for inspiration all the time.

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits... in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.