David Ebershoff Quotes
We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'David Ebershoff
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
Tayari Jones -
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
Valorie Curry -
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
Oren Peli -
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
Mara Liasson -
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
Gary Bauer -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
Faith Evans -
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
P. J. Harvey -
I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
Barry Jenkins -
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
W. G. Sebald -
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
Samantha Power -
I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
Vanity
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
Vikram Patel -
Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
Dacia Maraini -
When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.
Bridget Moynahan -
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.
Jaron Lanier -
Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.
Obie Trice -
We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'
David Ebershoff