Amor Towles Quotes

I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

Amor Towles

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AgeEyesMyselfMeThinkSomeone

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

Jim Crace

GoodAtheistOldNorth

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

Johan Cruyff

KnowledgeFootballMeWorldWealth

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Mel Brooks

MeStoryThinkArmySomewhereFilm

I'm always very cautious, because I don't want St. Lucia to turn out like everything else. I want to have a personality and be unique in some way that maybe limits our appeal to everyone in the world but makes us more special in some way.

St. Lucia

PersonalityWorldLimitsUniqueWant

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Robert Browning

LifePastWayLiesHowBefore

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Russell Brand

StrengthLoudDoesBelligerent

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

Mary Roach

DogLearningScienceWorldYouSee

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

Mitch Kapor

PeopleComputersFeelDownPersonal

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Jon Taffer

CollegeBehaviorAnthropologyOur

Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

ChildrenMedicalSchoolBrother

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

Cindy Crawford

BeautifulTimeMeFaceWeekendLook

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

Willie Stargell

CityNothingAtmosphereMatchForbes

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