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.
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Photography is an accident.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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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.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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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.
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
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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.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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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.
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Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
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School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.
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I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
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You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the trumpet blares, there will be no more kings, only slaves. And your family traditions will not be able to keep you safe.
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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.
