“These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.” Quote by Vijay Seshadri
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.” ThinkingWayOrderVariousSplitsMultitudesThink Of You Author:Vijay Seshadri
“I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.” ArtArtistTermPerformancesCriticalPerformance Art Author:Kalan Sherrard
“Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.” KnowsWayLooksSelfStruggleIdentity Author:Vijay Seshadri
“You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.” ThinkingKindRepresentationThink Of YouUnthinkable Author:Vijay Seshadri
“We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.” ThinkingConsciousnessSubjectivity Author:Vijay Seshadri
“When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFactsMightGivenSocialRolesCasesCreationOriginalsBottomContradictionImmigrantsLaddersConfinedSocial Roles Author:Vijay Seshadri
“[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsCharacterBodyKnow HowRichImagineMediaComplicatedYour BodyDo You KnowRepresentationConveyingComplicated Things Author:Kalan Sherrard
“Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.” PeopleWantTryingLanguageMouthsBoxesFogMistyDescribe MyselfCategorizationKeeping Your Mouth Shut Author:Kalan Sherrard
“I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.” ThinkingPainCausesResourcesRhetorical Author:Vijay Seshadri