Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
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The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.
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Clavain saw it all with sudden, heart-stopping clarity: all that mattered was the here and now. All that mattered was survival. Sentience that bowed down and accepted its own extinction-no matter what the long-term arguments, no matter how good the greater cause-was not the kind of sentience he was interested in preserving.
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I'll be supporting anyone but England.
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Clearly define what success means for you. Set short-term and quarterly career goals with your manager that will help lead you to your long term goals.
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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.
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I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.
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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
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I want to be the guy out there on the edge.
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At first I was not sure if I liked films. The sequences are so disconnected and mechanical I thought I should have difficulty "getting into the skin" of the characters. But I soon found that the care, precision and concentrated energy that attends the photographing of each scene conspires to pitch one into the right frame of mind.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.
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When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.
