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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

Siri Hustvedt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1955

Topics

Imagination Child Brother Young Boy

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

Jessica Biel

Life Sports Makeup Care Clothes Kid

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.

Jens Lekman

Life People Start Think Sexy You

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

John Muir

Society Soft Storms Must How Those

I love it! You know, when I tour college campuses, I always find that the prettiest girls in the room are the ones in the College Republicans.

Ann Coulter

Love College You Find Know Room

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. As much as I was disappointed and frustrated at times, I'm not sure that I ever felt sorry for myself or begrudged anybody any of their success.

Andy Roddick

Success Myself People Team Sorry

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Steven Wright

Death Words End Wish Bed Sometimes

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.

Mo Ibrahim

Development Aggressive Bank Most

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

Jonathan Kozol

Great Mediocrity Be True Find True

Everywhere I go, I buy something. I probably have an issue with shopping.

Jonathan Anderson

Shopping Go Buy Something Everywhere

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

Dean Ornish

Day Influence Choices Better Diet

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant H. McGill

Happiness Wild Consumerism Through

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Austin Mahone

Myself People Possible More Hard