D. H. Lawrence Quotes

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

D. H. Lawrence

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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

Damien Hirst
- People
- Eye
- Glasses
The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

Kabir Bedi
- Life
- You
- Actor
I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.

Laura Harrier
- Time
- Girl
- Cool
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

Patrick Rothfuss
- People
- Up
- World
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Adam Gopnik
- Life
- Quality
- Values
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

Ha-Joon Chang
- Life
- Work
- Stop