Daniel Kehlmann Quotes

It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

Daniel Kehlmann

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• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Baby
  • Brothers
  • Communicators

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

  

  Karen Mills
  • World
  • Small
  • Grow

• I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Job
  • Help
  • Talent

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Loyalty
  • Bond
  • Royalty

• At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Water

• I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Girl

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• It's no use crying over spilt summits.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Use
  • Crying
  • Over

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Language

• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Woman

• If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Gone
  • Olympic
  • Medals

• I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Training
  • Start
  • Skill

• 'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Job

• I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Funny

• Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Parents

• You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'

  

  Emily Meade
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Real
  • Future
  • Past