Daniel Tammet Quotes

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

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• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Never
  • Young
  • Tom

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Important
  • Theology
  • Romans

• I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Government

• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Water
  • Building
  • Development

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Happiness
  • Prison
  • Utopia

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• I love the free spirit in London.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Free
  • Spirit
  • London

• Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

  

  James Marsden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Mother
  • Sister

• I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

  

  Marcia Muller
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• As far as me participating in 'WrestleMania 32', the Magic 8-Ball says, 'Ask again later.'

  

  John Cena
  • Magic

• I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Doing

• My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

  

  Daniel Tammet
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  • Mother
  • Perfect