Anais Nin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
-
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
-
I just want to do my job.
-
I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
-
Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
-
I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
-
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
-
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
-
Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
-
In life go straight and turn right.
-
I married beneath me, all women do.
-
If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
-
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
-
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
-
Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane
-
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
-
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
-
I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
-
Dreams are necessary to life.
