Andrew Solomon Quotes
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.Andrew Solomon
Quotes to Explore
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart -
I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
Barrett Foa -
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
Victor Ponta -
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
J. B. Pritzker -
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
Oskar Schindler
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
Abraham Maslow -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel -
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
Felicity Huffman -
There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
Gail Simmons -
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney -
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner -
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
Indra Devi -
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
Gabriel Marcel -
Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
Sam Rockwell -
The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
Sam Jaeger
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I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
Christopher Durang -
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
Rafe Spall -
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
Madeleine L'Engle -
If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
Dana Brunetti -
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
Archibald Alexander -
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
Andrew Solomon