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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There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
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Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.
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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
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When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.
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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.
