Jonathan Lethem Quotes

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

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• I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hard Work

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Support
  • Emotional

• The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Like
  • Person
  • Smart

• My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Philosophy
  • District
  • Fits

• I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • English
  • Start
  • Dirty

• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Important
  • Friend

• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Father
  • Me
  • Kind

• I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Kind

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • You
  • Acknowledge
  • Heal

• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Reading
  • Animal
  • Almost

• Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • People
  • Time

• I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

  

  Janice Dickinson
  • Walking

• If indigenousness were the key to state longevity on the peninsula, the Japanese would not have taken Korea so easily in 1910. Take it they did, of course, and their propaganda soon reached far more Koreans than had ever heard of the ancient sages.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Taken
  • Japanese

• Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

  

  David Russell

• I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
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