Andre Aciman Quotes
Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
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Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
