Oscar Hijuelos Quotes
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.Oscar Hijuelos
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo -
You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
Daniel Craig -
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
Nas -
I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
Bebe Rexha -
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
Walter Isaacson
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
Safra A. Catz -
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
Federico Fellini -
A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
Rachel Miner -
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel -
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Ed Miliband -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey -
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani -
Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's great. We just need democracy, political pluralism, private property.' And then there was no Soviet Union. The European Union is the same.
Marine Le Pen -
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin -
Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.
Keke Palmer -
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
Oscar Hijuelos