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.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
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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.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
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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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Real
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• 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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

  

  Larry Page
  • Way
  • Complicated
  • Importance

• 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.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Understanding

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Passion
  • Rest
  • Never Too Late

• Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Brilliant

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Writing
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• I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Father
  • Want
  • Television

• Poland reminds us that sometimes the smallest steps, however imperfect, can ultimately tear down walls, can ultimately transform the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• What else is the help of medicine than love?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Help

• The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Ideas
  • Adopt
  • Idiotic

• I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.

  

  David Muir

• If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Culture
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• A lot of women say, 'I look good thanks to magic creams,' but that's a joke.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Good
  • Women
  • Magic

• An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Country
  • Fighting

• 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.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon