Vikram Patel Quotes

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Years
  • Texas

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Hair

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Fight
  • Adversity

• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Long
  • Language
  • Voice

• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• My dream duet would be with Dolly Parton!

  

  Elle King
  • Dream

• Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Service

• The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Challenges
  • Projects
  • Blogging

• For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • People
  • American

• I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health