Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

Hanya Yanagihara

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• I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Hair

• 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've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• Tone can be as important as text.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Important
  • Text
  • Tone

• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • History
  • Past
  • You

• Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Leading

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
  • Rich

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Meal
  • Scheme
  • Effectively

• I've always been passionate about fashion.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Fashion

• I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul.” She asked him: “Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?”, and he said: “Because I love Paul.

  

  Nilsson
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Saws

• As mayor in an executive position, I have to dress more like an executive, which has been delightful.

  

  Betsy Hodges

• You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Free
  • Political
  • Party

• Album 1 is proving that you're worth listening to, album 2 is proving that it wasn't a fluke, and album 3 is the most authentic thing I've ever done.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Done
  • Listening

• Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Party
  • Never
  • Friendship