Andrew O'Hagan Quotes
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
Salman Rushdie -
I so never went through a bad-girl period.
Maggie Siff -
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott -
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater -
Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
Caity Lotz -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
M.I.A. -
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ted Deutch -
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Laura Dern -
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright -
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Olafur Eliasson -
Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
Ramana Maharshi
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Escher -
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
Laura Wade -
My goal in boxing is to be the best.
Canelo Alvarez -
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
Joanne Rowling -
If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
Sally Pearson -
Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
Hafez
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Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.
Priya Sachdev -
I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
Kate Reardon -
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
Mark Cuban -
Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
Nadine Dorries -
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
Andrew O'Hagan