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
  • Passionate

• 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
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• 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

• 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
  • Importance
  • Complicated

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• '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.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe

• Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• Blue Moon,Now I'm no longer alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love of my own.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• She must transform his hands so they will be willing to twist the rope around throats that have been singled out as hers was, throats other than hers. She must marry the hangman or no one, but that is not so bad. Who else is there to marry?

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Bad

• Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Food
  • Single
  • Green

• Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Important
  • Business
  • Success

• You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Unity

• My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Tea
  • My Mother
  • British Culture

• I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

  

  Jaron Lanier

• The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painter
  • Evaluation
  • Secret Of Art

• If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

  

  Geraldine Laybourne
  • Woman
  • Leader
  • Another

• 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