Amor Towles Quotes

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

Amor Towles

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HistoryTimeManThinkPresent

Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

Jimmy Smits

GreatPeopleMeLawyerYouPlay

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

Meryl Streep

RememberKnowCountGetJustHow

It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.

Stefon Diggs

TimeYourselfThinkYouEmotional

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

Sienna Miller

MeNegativeEnergyFeelIgnoreHead

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

Robert Delaunay

ActionHarmonyWillSubjectThen

It's how you prioritize in life.

Ruth Wilson

LifeYouPrioritizeHow

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Anne Stevenson

WorkMeIdeasMemorableOriginal

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

Alfred Kastler

LightTransitionLaserAtomIntense

As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul.

Pilou Asbaek

I AmPersonMorePrivate PersonThan

I've never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office.

Sebastian Maniscalco

PeopleLooksRocksGoGroupOffice

What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

ChangeGodCharacterGreatTimeYou

While other countries may espouse the liberal utopian dream of a global community, it's usually only to get the richer countries to pay more money for the world's problems.

Richard Grenell

CommunityMoneyWorldProblemsDream

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