Amelie Nothomb Quotes

I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

Amelie Nothomb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: belgian
  • Birth: July 9, 1966

Topics

LifeImaginationHappyStupidYou

There's no doubt about it: Hillary is the best person to be our 45th president. Hillary has always been a tireless advocate for working families - she's never ceased to make sure everybody has a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.

Joaquin Castro

BestAmerican DreamAmericanDoubt

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

Matt Taibbi

PeopleDemocracyWorldFreeDeep

Throughout the universe of public and private funds, managers are measured quarterly against one index or another, defined by statistics, and corralled into this category or that category so that fund of funds, pensions, and other institutions can make comforting - if not necessarily prudent - asset allocation decisions.

Michael Burry

UniverseDecisionsStatisticsAgainst

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

NeverTirePassionsExhaustPublic

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Tom Cruise

TalkMeansSettlingDisputes

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

Rozonda Thomas

PowerStartCareHatersYouKnow

Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.

Denis O'Hare

CrazyKindSpecialComic-Con

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

Dee Dee Myers

AloneWinDriveGameCarePolitical

If one person feels the way I felt when I first fell in love with country music, then I'm doing my job.

Cole Swindell

LoveMusicJobDoingCountryPerson

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

Preet Bharara

WorryCyberGatheringThingsUnited

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

Seth Godin

PeopleAttentionMarketingContest

I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was 'Funny Girl' that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldn't play football, so I stayed in, and I watched 'Funny Girl.'

Sean Harris

FunnyGirlFootballMeSaturday

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