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 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!

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I have never had personal debt and never will.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Never
  • Personal
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Long
  • Friend

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Help
  • Fans
  • Twitter

• 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.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Dessert

• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
  • Things
  • Magazines

• Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Man
  • Enough
  • Nothing

• Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Facts
  • Fuel
  • Conservation

• The thing about death is that it's honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Death
  • Honest
  • About

• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Like
  • Individuals
  • Punished

• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Never
  • Will
  • Practical

• 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.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Party
  • Powerful

• Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Great

• Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Space

• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  

  Walter Block
  • Political
  • Unique
  • Philosophy

• I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.

  

  Holly Hunter

• Because the private sector has evolved processes and metrics for growth over many generations, for-profit models are more likely to efficiently accomplish their goals.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Growth
  • Goals

• What I love about piano and vocal is it's incredibly pure, and it gets down to the essence of the song because you're not distracted by an orchestra. When it's just a piano and a voice, it's about the purity of singing the song.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Song
  • Singing

• Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

  

  Andre Aciman