Ayn Rand Quotes
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.
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Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.
