"The great thing about Bombay is its open, generous heart. I hope - I know - that this spirit will endure. Bombay will adjust."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Suketu Mehta

#Heart Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Endure Quotes

“Ah,â€ said a voice from the doorway, â€œhaving your annual â€˜everyone thinks Will is a lunaticâ€™ meeting, are you? â€œItâ€™s biannual,â€ said Jem. â€œAnd no, this is not that meeting.”
“As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.”
“I think that the sheer fact that music can raise certain questions or put topics on the agenda has in itself already an effect. Just like any other art of cultural expression can do that - books, films, photos, painting - it can bring people together who share certain ideals, who don't find their ideas expressed properly, or even expressed at all, in the mainstream media.”
“I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.”
“All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.”
“The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.”

Source : Nova Ren Suma (2011). “Imaginary Girls”, p.35, Penguin
“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”

Source : "Course in General Linguistics" by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, New York : Philosophical Library, (p. 120), 1959.
“To think confidently, act confidently... Act the way you want to feel.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.50, Penguin

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