Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
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Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.
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I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
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My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
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Poland reminds us that sometimes the smallest steps, however imperfect, can ultimately tear down walls, can ultimately transform the world.
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What else is the help of medicine than love?
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The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
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'Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?' Pelorat said, 'If you list it like that-' 'List it any way you please,' said Trevize. 'I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.'
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Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
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It turns out that many of the Trump voters who had said they wanted to burn it all down meant it, and they are taking to the task with great relish.
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Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
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The NYPD, they're the finest in the world.
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I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
