Ivo Andric Quotes
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.
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It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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Our modern religious horizon and our conception of the character of a religious leader and teacher are so different that it is not easy to understand men who saw the province of religion chiefly in the broad reaches of civic affairs and international relations.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.
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Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
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If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.
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One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.
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When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
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What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
