Paul Auster Quotes
What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
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The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
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Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
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Until we can get people who are willing to play for West Indies in the right way, I think that we're going to be struggling for a long time.
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If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.
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What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.
