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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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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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.
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Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.
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People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.
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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.
