Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.
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I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
