Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Justice
  • First
  • Portfolio

• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Money
  • Government
  • Project

• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • People
  • House
  • Myself

• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Science
  • Humanities

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Running
  • Down
  • Active

• If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Life
  • Want
  • Gift

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Moving
  • Best

• I wanna live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Wanna

• A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Day

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Energy
  • Kid
  • Films

• When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.

  

  Ben Platt
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King's daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn't bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Father
  • Daughter

• I dress to make myself comfortable. I really do have a problem with it. . . it's just not right.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Problem
  • Dress

• Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • America
  • Gay