Ethan Canin Quotes

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

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• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• My head works in music, so there's always music there.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Always
  • Head

• Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.

  

  Saharon Shelah
  • Time
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• What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Tattoo

• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Greek
  • Clouds
  • Landscape

• We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Job
  • Identity

• A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Different
  • House

• It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Loyalty
  • Betrayal

• Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Laughter
  • Suffers

• When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemy
  • Wrong
  • Interrupt

• It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Attention
  • Child

• I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Women
  • Challenges
  • Differences

• Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Virtue
  • Envy
  • Generosity

• A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.

  

  Dan Snow
  • Looks
  • Position
  • Felt

• I am not going to rape you, Mrs. Blackburn," he said, toweling off his face, as if accusations of rape were a daily and tiresome occurence.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Said
  • I Am Not
  • Rape

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Families
  • Faults
  • Attributes