Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

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• Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Me

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Giving
  • Best
  • Effort

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reason
  • Cause
  • Justification

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Numbers

• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Modern
  • Doors

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Different
  • May

• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Working
  • Lucky
  • Incredible

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Long
  • Done

• Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Up
  • Long

• I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
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