Andre Aciman Quotes
For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.Andre Aciman
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
Kabir Bedi -
When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina -
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Barbara Bush -
I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
Taraji P. Henson -
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
Caleb Deschanel -
Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
Taylor Momsen
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
Wallace Shawn -
I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
Sam Smith -
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.
Faith Hill
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
Beau Willimon -
My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
Imran Amed -
The biggest things in life are not materials.
Carlos Slim -
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. Somerset Maugham -
We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.
Frances Bean Cobain -
Life is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
Barry Mann -
There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band -
When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
Michael Caine -
For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.
Andre Aciman