This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it’s all very temporary. Melissa Auf der Maur Read Quote
From the industry’s point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what’s left of the local streams and aquifers. It’s that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
There’s something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. Maurice Sendak Read Quote
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. Al Pacino Read Quote
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
What I’ve learned over the years… judges are conscientious… not like lawyers, who give opinions. Richard Cordray Read Quote
In 2004, I was visiting my cousins in San Francisco and we were in a restaurant talking in Punjabi. We suddenly saw heads turn. And one of the Americans at the restaurant abused us and called my cousins, ‘turban-headed Osamas.’ That strengthened my resolve to make a film that highlights the issue. Puneet Issar Read Quote
