Rabih Alameddine Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams -
Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
Patrick Lencioni -
On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
Kat Graham -
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Laura Mvula -
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
Irvine Welsh
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman -
I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
Barry Jenkins -
Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
Pam Bondi -
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Camille Paglia -
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
Gail Z. Martin
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
Jackson Pollock -
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
Valerie June -
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
Dan O'Brien -
It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
Sam Hunt -
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie -
I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
Zaha Hadid
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As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.
Edgar Allan Poe -
People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.
Naoto Fukasawa -
I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde -
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
Rabih Alameddine