Amelie Nothomb Quotes

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Amelie Nothomb

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• I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sunset

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Freedom
  • Human
  • Illusion

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Country
  • Truth

• I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Change
  • Iran
  • Nationalism

• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Children
  • She

• I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Planet
  • Group
  • Pop

• My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Good
  • Music
  • Together

• I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Me

• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Age

• Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

  

  Ramakrishna

• We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Peace

• Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.

  

  Eminem
  • Word
  • Get
  • Prick

• But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.

  

  Eknath Easwaran
  • Up
  • Work
  • Patience

• You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • She
  • Growing

• It has been claimed that Dr. Weishaupt was an atheist, a Cabalistic magician, a rationalist, a mystic; a democrat, a socialist, an anarchist, a fascist; a Machiavellian amoralist, an alchemist, a totalitarian and an 'enthusiastic philanthropist.' (The last was the verdict of Thomas Jefferson, by the way.)

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Atheist

• If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • People
  • Energy
  • Health

• Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • Work
  • Different
  • Peace

• In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Different
  • Marriage

• When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Heaven
  • Flying

• More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

  

  Amelie Nothomb