Ariel Pink Quotes

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

Ariel Pink

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• The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • American

• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Believe
  • News
  • Journalism

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • City
  • Child

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• A lot of people don't like me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Me
  • Like

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Business
  • Me
  • Ideology

• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Giving
  • Nice
  • Present

• A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Book
  • Night
  • Stand

• I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

  

  James Salter
  • Writing

• I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

  

  Brett Hull
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Son

• The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Community

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Important
  • Education

• If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying