Rumaan Alam Quotes

When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.

Rumaan Alam

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FamilyFatherChildMeCreateNew

I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

Andrew Davies

QualityPeopleMeThinkReliable

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

Stedman Graham

HomelessTalkingYouPersonSame

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

Stanley B. Prusiner

OpportunityScienceHistoryEconomics

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Shirley Williams

BackPartyBelongWhereBeliefs

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

Michael O'Brien

EvilUniverseConfusedChristian

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.

Michael Korda

StarsChildrenSchoolClassmates

I don't have a go-to move, man; I just rush.

Jason Pierre-Paul

ManMoveRushJust

I dislike the phrase 'social media.' 'Social media' is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.

Jared Cohen

SuccessSocial MediaPeopleTools

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

Chris Carter

LoveMeConnectionSpecialSomething

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Peter De Vries

BrokenThinkI CanBearBeginHomes

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

Shannon Elizabeth

QuickPrettyLearnerInstinctive

When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.

Thomas Friedman

LifePeopleYouGoComfortableUp

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