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

• I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Courage

• He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Mountain
  • Fruit
  • Familiar

• I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Rock

• Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Revolt
  • Last Man

• Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• 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