"The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?"

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Source : "The GQA: Kal Penn". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

Kal Penn

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“The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.”
“My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I know how sad it is when you won't be able to realize your dream. But do you know what's great about dreams? You can always have a different dream. Just like the way you dream every night in your sleep, you can just dream another dream. You're not throwing your dream away, but having a different dream.”
“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

Source : Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown
“Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.”
“When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.”
“I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.”
“Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.”

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