André Aciman Quotes
It’s just that the magic of someone new never lasts long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo.André Aciman
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
Laura Dern -
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Beatrice Wood -
I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
J. J. Abrams -
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
Wayne Gretzky -
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Nancy Gibbs -
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel -
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 -
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop -
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
Halsey -
There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Gary Johnson
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan -
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson -
The best part about poker is there's no down side.
Samantha Bee -
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
Edmund Hillary
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
M. Night Shyamalan -
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
Malcolm Fraser -
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
Vera Wang -
In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
Laura Anne Gilman -
I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
Tammy Duckworth -
It’s just that the magic of someone new never lasts long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo.
André Aciman