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.
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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.
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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.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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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.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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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.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.'
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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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.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.
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My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.
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The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.
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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
