Anis Mojgani Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
-
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
-
It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
-
If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
-
I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
-
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
-
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
-
If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
-
I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
-
I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
-
I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
-
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
-
Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.
-
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
-
Stay big in your work and small in your life.
-
As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
-
It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
-
If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?
-
I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.
-
I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere.
