Sukarno Quotes
We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.
Quotes to Explore
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.
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If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.
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Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.
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We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
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What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
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We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.
