J. Tillman Quotes

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • House
  • Sister
  • Parent

• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Friendship
  • Anger
  • Hatred

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Know
  • See

• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Dark

• We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Say
  • Numbers
  • Many

• Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Important
  • Live

• Life doesn't stop with football.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Football

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• I have always loathed working out.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Always
  • Working
  • Out

• We're a nation of immigrants.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Law
  • Problem

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Married
  • Divorced
  • Russians

• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Wanted
  • Studio
  • Recording

• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Culture

• I think it really comes down to, it doesn't matter if it's a girl or man, it's about if you have something to say, it's about the music, you know?

  

  Maria Brink
  • Music
  • Think
  • Something

• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Vanity