Aimee Carter Quotes

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

Aimee Carter

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• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Worthy
  • Boom

• In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Man
  • Corrupt
  • Seem

• The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Kind
  • Dark
  • Confusion

• On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Ambition
  • Scale

• I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.

  

  Malese Jow
  • Love
  • Person
  • Blessed

• Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Medicine
  • Doctor

• Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feels

• As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Thinking
  • Hip Hop
  • Hips

• A library is a growing organism.

  

  S. R. Ranganathan
  • Growing
  • Library

• Sleep helps you win at life.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Win

• Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • World
  • Heart
  • Study

• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Free

• If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

  

  H. L. Mencken

• Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

  

  William Empson
  • Analysis
  • Contradiction
  • Oneself

• Loneliness is a person’s own fault. If you’re lonely it means you have no resources within yourself.

  

  Sylvia Sidney
  • Loneliness
  • Resources
  • Fault

• No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Relationship
  • Dreams
  • Internet

• It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

  

  Aimee Carter
  • Loneliness
  • Oneself