André Aciman Quotes

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

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• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• What you are comes to you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You

• When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Think

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Choices
  • Hero
  • Creative

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Glory

• I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Pro-life

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• I love the Kerastase Hair Oils and the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer. They're great for making my hair really soft, but to be honest, any cheap conditioner works. Just leave it on and let it soak in, and it really helps, whatever you use.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Works
  • Making
  • Helps

• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Family
  • You
  • Community

• When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Action

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Medals

• Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Nature
  • Falling
  • Bother

• People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Food
  • Diet

• Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Value

• Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Dark
  • Television

• I was attracted to the bad boys, the troublemakers. You know, the ones that were really cute but didn't come home. So I have a couple of failed marriages under my belt, but that's OK.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Couple

• Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

  

  André Aciman
  • Friends
  • First
  • Lovers