Andre Aciman Quotes

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

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• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Science
  • Successful

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Superman
  • Nobody
  • Anyone

• Photography is an accident.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Photography
  • Accident

• Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Immigration
  • Form
  • Flattery

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Black
  • Speak
  • Walk

• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Political
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Day
  • Courage

• Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Ideas
  • Easy
  • Cheap

• Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Happy

• Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Roles

• Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • War
  • Future
  • Peace

• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Growing
  • Comedy
  • Obsessed

• I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Child

• Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Company

• Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Career
  • Profound
  • Impact

• Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.

  

  John Linder
  • Life

• I have a job that requires me to get dressed up more often than if I were in another line of work, but I don't have a lot of indulgences. I like nice wine, and I like sushi, and those things aren't cheap. Well, they can be, but I don't think I'd go for the cheap fish!

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Thinking
  • Indulgence

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Divorce

• The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • Great
  • Past
  • Nice

• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Father
  • Voice

• We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

  

  Andre Aciman