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Michel Houellebecq Quotes

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

Michel Houellebecq

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: french
Birth: February 26, 1956

Topics

I Am People Think Because I Think

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Love People Sister Think Care You

It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

Humble I Am Voice Confident Enough

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

Change Day Meetings You Every Day

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

Truth Yourself Song Thought Lonely

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success.

Subhash Chandra

Work Success Business People Skin

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Think Push You Try Little Deeper

Each quarter, Indian IT firms publish their results, and these are broadcast on CNBC. From the comfort of their boardrooms, executives say how many new employees have been added, how many more Fortune 500 companies have been signed up as clients, how many million-dollar companies were added, and so on.

Employees Results Comfort New Say

I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can.

Tom Weston-Jones

Happy People I Can Mood Try Much

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

House Bed Now Never Next Out

In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.

School High School Loved Doing You

When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

Me World Interesting Interest Stuff

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Clayton M. Christensen

Opportunity People Management Better

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