Amor Towles Quotes
In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
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My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.
