Miranda July Quotes

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Miranda July

• Life
• Want
• Things
• Let Go
• Consist

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• Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sleep

• I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Father
  • Parent

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Movie

• By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • May
  • End

• There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Free
  • Logic
  • Illusion

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • Up
  • Meet

• Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Positive

• I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Think
  • Questions

• We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Rain
  • She
  • Earth

• (Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch

• And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Earth
  • Hand

• You have Palestinians living in Israel with full political rights. You don’t have discriminatory laws against them, I mean not letting them swim on certain beaches or anything like that. I think it's unfair to call Israel an apartheid state. If Kerry did so, I think he made a mistake.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Political
  • Mistake

• Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Up

• I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • People
  • Life

• One day isn't dramatic, but that was the median. For the more severely ill, the net reduction was three days, and for those treated early, it was 2 to 3 days.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Comedian
  • Dramatic
  • Reduction

• I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Fun

• If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

  

  Miranda July
  • Life
  • Want
  • Things