Andre Aciman Quotes
To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Hear the other side.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.
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The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
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To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.
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To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.
