Jami Attenberg Quotes

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

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• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• Everything is designed to help you sell out.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Help
  • You
  • Everything

• I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Reason

• Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • All Things

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Two

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Experience
  • Desire

• In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • True
  • Think
  • Know

• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value
  • Add

• The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Always
  • Wind
  • Stronger

• When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • New
  • New York
  • Teenager

• God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Earth
  • Food

• I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Very

• It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Year

• Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• You just have to live today. And I think one of my New Year's resolutions is definitely trying to stop and live in the moment and cherish it.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Today

• The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.

  

  Frank Oz
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Light
  • Decisions
  • Assemblies

• I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Love
  • Like
  • Wear

• This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Work

• I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

  

  Jami Attenberg