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'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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I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.
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From the biological standpoint, people deprived of the human moment in their day-to-day business dealings, actually in all domains of their lives, are losing brain cells - literally - while those who cultivate the human moment are growing them.
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The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.
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The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.
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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
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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.
