Rabih Alameddine Quotes

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Pain
  • Diverse

• The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • You
  • Lie

• If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Perspective
  • Critical

• There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Work
  • Job
  • War

• In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Run

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Serious
  • Just
  • Just Because

• I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Reading

• I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Party
  • Focus
  • Saying

• It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Love
  • American

• It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Work
  • Important
  • Goals

• Here is tragedy-and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...

  

  Larry Wall

• All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge

• The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Cold
  • Mercy

• I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Hair

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Slavery
  • Absence

• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  

  African Spir
  • Consciousness
  • Morality
  • Opposition

• The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Time
  • Space

• There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

  

  Anchee Min
  • Children
  • Chinese

• For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

  

  Rabih Alameddine