Andre Aciman Quotes

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

Andre Aciman

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
  • Smart
  • Relationships

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Trying
  • Daily

• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Yourself
  • Gift
  • Forgiveness

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Career
  • Literature

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Alone

• British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Along

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Great
  • Art
  • Comedy

• If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

  

  Charles Nelson Reilly
  • Money
  • Friends
  • College

• Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

  

  William Alcott
  • Equal
  • Property
  • Opium

• Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • People
  • Identity
  • Shadow