Andrew Solomon Quotes
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
Andrew Solomon
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Kanye West
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
Larry Page
If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
Kate Upton
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
Carice van Houten
Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
Cameron Mackintosh
I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
Rachel Platten
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
Sam Worthington
If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
Katha Pollitt
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
F. Sionil Jose
On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
Adam D'Angelo
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
Ernest Hemingway
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
William Howard Taft
I didn't really enjoy school in general.
Jacob Batalon
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
E. O. Wilson
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
Andrew Solomon
