"Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?"

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Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

#Wise Quotes #Father Quotes #Cereal Quotes

“Money is a never-ending problem.”
“People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.”
“My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview with Jason Dohring of Veronica Mars". Interview with Kath Skerry, www.givememyremote.com. March 16, 2006.
“Cancer is enough to get my attention.”

Source : Charles Grodin (1993). “How I Get Through Life: A Wise and Witty Guide”, Quill
“Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.”
“I think at you have to do what your conscience tells you to do.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.”
“As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.”

Source : Andrew Lam (2010). “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres”, p.133, Heyday

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