Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more— from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.
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I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
