Max Muller Quotes
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
Quotes to Explore
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.
Colson Whitehead -
You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.
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While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
