Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.Chang-Rae Lee
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I think people appreciate honesty.
Naftali Bennett -
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar -
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
J. William Fulbright -
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters -
Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
Olivier Theyskens
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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
T. S. Eliot -
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.
Van Day Truex -
Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.
Joanne Rowling -
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
Dalai Lama -
the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.
Ellis Peters
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What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
Saib Tabrizi -
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C. S. Lewis -
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln -
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare -
I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.
Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys -
Most of the time, I'm working in places I'm not familiar with. Sometimes it's Slovakia, and sometimes it's Hawaii. Not to bash on Slovakia, but I really did enjoy Hawaii.
George Clooney
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We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
Sandra Oh -
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.
Chang-Rae Lee