Diasporas are always conservative. It’s a small provincial community, the people who had enough money to move to America, and they’re cut off from the rest of India. They circle their wagons, hold onto a few old ideas and don’t let go.
Quotes
“Instead of showing you can afford to spend money, you’re showing you can afford to spend your social capital… You’re saying, I’m so autonomous and successful that I can afford to dress in a nonconforming way.”
“… your sister. She is your family. Of course she going to be judgemental and condescending”
– Mitch & Cam, Modern Family
“Whose side are you on?”
“She’s my daughter. You’re my wife. Let’s remember what’s important here. That there’s a football game on”.
Jay & Gloria, in a modern family
“My husband was an editor at the New York Times, so he’d work really late nights, and I’d sometimes get lonely. So I started letting this tomcat into our house everyday. But my husband was horribly allergic to cats, so right before he’d get home, I’d let the cat back out again. But one night it was raining so hard that I refused to let the cat out, and my husband stayed up all night sneezing. And that’s how I got a puppy!”
The real waste in our bathrooms
It is hard to find something that we actually got right in the modern bathroom. The toilet is too high (our bodies were designed to squat), the sink is too low and almost useless; the shower is a deathtrap (an American dies every day from bath or shower accidents). We fill this tiny, inadequately ventilated room with toxic chemicals ranging from nail polish to tile cleaners. We flush the toilet and send bacteria into the air, with our toothbrush in a cup a few feet away. We take millions of gallons of fresh water and contaminate it with toxic chemicals, human waste, antibiotics and birth control hormones in quantities large enough to change the gender of fish.
You know how they say that when you’re dying, you’re supposed to go toward the light? Well, when I thought I was dying, the light was moving further and further away.
Love can only take you so far…
“My first marriage lasted ten years.”
“What happened?”
“A wise man once told me: ‘Religious ideology set aside, a relationship needs two things to survive: sex and money.’
And mine didn’t have much of either.”
The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place, It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life.
But it ain’t about how hard you’re hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!
Rocky Balboa
How does he Dick Cheney eat when he’s…
How does he (Dick Cheney) eat when he’s wearing Darth Vader‘s helmet, anyway?
Mark Salter, in Game Change