Amelie Nothomb Quotes
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.Amelie Nothomb
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
Mahesh Babu -
I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
Laura Dern -
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Jack Vance -
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover -
The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
Cam Newton -
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Nate Silver -
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee -
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
Ma Jian -
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
Hamilton Jordan -
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
Orhan Pamuk -
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
Lajos Kossuth
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
Rachel Shelley -
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Fareed Zakaria -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Fran Drescher -
In Chicago, they die for their teams.
Zubin Mehta -
Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
Dan Pink
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
Ai Weiwei -
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Bjorn Borg -
I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.
Amelie Nothomb