Paul Auster Quotes

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

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• It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Amazing
  • Just
  • Now

• I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Smart
  • Surprise
  • Known

• By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Time
  • Bad
  • End

• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conscience

• More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Children
  • Experience
  • High

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Important
  • High
  • Water

• I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Think
  • Lake
  • Lived

• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Birthday
  • Celebrate

• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Matter
  • Egg
  • Duck

• Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Money
  • Day
  • Cooking

• You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Society
  • Small

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Humility

• When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • You
  • Many
  • Following

• A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Way
  • Discipline
  • Meditation

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Football
  • Son

• All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Trying
  • Care
  • Honest

• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Purpose

• Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Planet
  • Creatures

• I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

  

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