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I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.

We applaud any company making business decisions that empower women.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.

Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

Being happy professionally is really the ability to do what you love doing the way you want to do it. Which is, if you have a natural talent and you have honed it to a world-class standard, you want the creative and professional space to express this talent your way. However, because your customers – both paying customers and society at large – want to control what they want from you, there may be times when you feel suffocated and unhappy. Ask yourself: is it worth doing something for money or social acclaim/validation at the cost of your inner peace or Happiness? If the answer to this question is ‘no’ – choose to be ‘humbly ruthless’. Be unflinching and non-negotiable on your professional and creative standards. Yet take that position with all humility, knowing fully well that someone else may fulfil that need for your customer should you opt out. Surprisingly though, 9 times out of 10, people may come back and work with you. The one deal that breaks off may have never made you happy; so, really, no sweat there! This is the key to Happiness – being ‘humbly ruthless’!

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before.