Chris Abani Quotes

He said to me, 'It will always be difficult, but if you cry like this every time, you will die of heartbreak. Just know it is enough sometimes to know it is difficult.'

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• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• I completely get the drag thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Thing
  • Get
  • Drag

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Small
  • Friendship
  • Silly

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Live
  • Interesting

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Hope
  • New
  • Drug

• Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Remember
  • High
  • Woman

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mom

• I'm a darned good listener.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Listener
  • Darned

• There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Character
  • Star
  • Hair

• Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Think
  • You
  • Change

• Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Pain

• If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Want
  • Might

• Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

  

  Avicii
  • Time
  • Music
  • House

• Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There is always an apprehension that opportunities will go down. There are apprehensions of displacement. Many of these apprehensions are unfounded.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • People

• He said to me, 'It will always be difficult, but if you cry like this every time, you will die of heartbreak. Just know it is enough sometimes to know it is difficult.'

  

  Chris Abani
  • Time
  • Die
  • Heartbreak