Matt Haig Quotes
To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'Matt Haig
Quotes to Explore
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
Karen Bass -
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
Barbra Streisand -
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
Felicity Jones -
I think America has a brilliant future.
Harold Evans -
A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
Xenophon
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
Aasif Mandvi -
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong -
I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
Zac Goldsmith -
Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
Harry Browne -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
Walter Gropius
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
Nancy Gibbs -
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
Barry McGee -
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Imelda Marcos -
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
Damian Woetzel
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I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
George Best -
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
Aubrey Beardsley -
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
Dawn Steel -
Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.
Douglas Rushkoff -
The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.
Jasmila Zbanic -
To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'
Matt Haig