Oscar Hijuelos Quotes
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.Oscar Hijuelos
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo -
You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
Daniel Craig -
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
Nas -
I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
Bebe Rexha -
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
Walter Isaacson -
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
Safra A. Catz -
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
Federico Fellini -
A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
Rachel Miner -
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga -
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel -
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Ed Miliband -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey -
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks -
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
A. N. Wilson
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Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
Whitney Houston -
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese -
I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.
Zephyr Teachout -
I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.
Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper -
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
Oscar Hijuelos