Mariella Frostrup Quotes
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.Mariella Frostrup
Quotes to Explore
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
Hamza Yusuf -
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
Rabih Alameddine -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut -
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
Imtiaz Ali -
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
Dan Kildee -
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
Ban Ki-moon
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan -
I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
Sam Hunt -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
Damon Lindelof
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At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.
Alain Macklovitch -
I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
Bebe Rexha -
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
Norman Reilly Raine -
Stay positive and do whatever makes you happy.
Charles Trippy -
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.
Mariella Frostrup