Rabih Alameddine Quotes
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?Rabih Alameddine
Quotes to Explore
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
Valerie Plame -
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
Abbey Clancy -
For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
Paris Hilton -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
Fran Drescher -
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Barbara Jordan -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells -
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
Tavi Gevinson -
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
Abigail Washburn -
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
Sam Hunt -
I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
Tavi Gevinson
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
Jon Kabat-Zinn -
It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'
Penny Jordan -
Don't get discouraged with your skin when it doesn't do what you want it to do... Give it some time. That's the only way to get to know yourself.
SZA -
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
Rabih Alameddine