Amor Towles Quotes
Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.Amor Towles
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
Zoe Kravitz -
Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
Yuri Andropov -
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
Omari Hardwick -
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander -
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
D. B. Sweeney -
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
Zubin Mehta -
I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder -
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
Taliesin
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler -
With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
Vanilla Ice -
When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
Karen Salmansohn -
Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
Ted Cruz -
We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
Viktor Orban
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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Most people quit because they look how far they have to go, not how far they have come.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast. (As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.)
Pauline Kael -
The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
Pablo Picasso -
My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The Great Leader, my grandfather, ruled with the support of the world's other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union, as well as our China. But today, the Soviet Union is history and China has become more integrated with the Western system. And the United States seeks regime change in my country. And yet, we have survived with our ideology and system intact. How? Because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons.
Kim Jong-un -
Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
Amor Towles