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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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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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
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Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
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My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was.
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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.
