Paul Auster Quotes

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• I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Magazine

• Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Like
  • Angry
  • Two

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Business
  • Doing

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Real
  • Wish

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Fighting

• This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Different
  • Result
  • Using

• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • You
  • Know
  • Fifties

• Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Confidence

• Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I've never been strong with my time-management skills.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Never

• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Business
  • Government
  • Leaving

• I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Life
  • Marine

• Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.

  

  Joe Lonsdale

• I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Used
  • Whole

• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Character
  • Green

• I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I'll do.

  

  Chris Christie
  • People
  • American
  • Trust

• Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

  

  Paul Auster
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