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Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
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Birth: 1954

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Grow Learn You Wrong Elders Wiser

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Love Money Death Joy Anxiety Source

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Best Cool You Whatever Successful

Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.

Fat Jokes Sure Weight Sensitive

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Time People Think Famous Long Know

My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling.

Time Day Dinner Soccer Bed Play

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

Life Death Victory Frustration Short

Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

Amanda Seyfried

Love School People High School Face

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Political Know Move Fact Most Lot

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

Meditation Dead Without

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

Music Son Age Lost Just Because

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

Douglas Coupland

People Alive Human Something Sure

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.

Light Present You Depth Whole Been

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