Amor Towles Quotes
We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.Amor Towles
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
Maggie Stiefvater -
'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
Mahershala Ali -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
I'm still learning my craft.
Yann Martel -
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
Narendra Modi -
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
Mac DeMarco -
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
Zendaya -
I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
Kate Bosworth -
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
Sam Smith
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
Ted Turner -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland -
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
Ranbir Kapoor -
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
Randi Weingarten -
I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
Zeljko Ivanek
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Imagine what it’s like to make your way through a sea of faces in the school corridor, trying to figure out who might assault you. Children who overreact to their peers’ aggression, who don’t pick up on other kids’ needs, who easily shut down or lose control of their impulses, are likely to be shunned and left out of sleepovers or play dates.
Bessel van der Kolk -
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
Madame de Stael -
One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
Albert Einstein -
I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
Maisie Williams -
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.
Amor Towles