Andre Aciman Quotes
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.Andre Aciman
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
Sally Watson -
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar -
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
Rahm Emanuel -
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
Sam Phillips -
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
Ban Ki-moon -
Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
Carine Roitfeld
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
Kalpana Chawla -
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 -
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
Sam Walton
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Rafael Vinoly -
I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
Viktor Orban -
What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
Barry McGuigan -
Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
Aaron Tveit -
I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
Laura Prepon -
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
Imtiaz Ali
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
Randy Travis -
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
Ralph Merkle -
Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
Dale Dauten -
The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another.
David Thewlis -
As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.
George Foreman -
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
Andre Aciman