Amor Towles Quotes
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.Amor Towles
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk -
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor -
I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
Valerie Plame -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
Women are not all single-issue voters.
Carly Fiorina -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie -
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
Victoria Secunda -
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
Iggy Pop -
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
Randi Weingarten -
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
Cameron Mackintosh -
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Felix Dennis -
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
Salman Khurshid -
I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
Dakota Fanning -
A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
Gale Anne Hurd -
If you don't vote, you don't count.
Nancy Pelosi
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
Jack Vance -
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.
Jacques Barzun -
I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.
Patti Stanger -
There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
Eric Fellner -
Since building a universal virtual-reality generator is physically possible, it must actually be built in some universes.
David Deutsch -
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.
Amor Towles