Andrew Solomon Quotes
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.Andrew Solomon
Quotes to Explore
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
Daley Thompson -
Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
Kajol -
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Life does not owe me a shred.
Valerie Harper -
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
Kate Moss -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Omar Bongo -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith -
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
Ioan Gruffudd -
I love books.
Gail Porter
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
Pablo Sandoval -
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Victoria Woodhull -
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King -
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I'm never trying to break a career high out there.
Kawhi Leonard -
I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him.
Lupita Nyong'o -
We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.
Christine O'Donnell -
Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.
Peter Zumthor -
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.
Andrew Solomon