Mohsin Hamid Quotes

I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables the readers' creativity and interaction with the book.

Mohsin Hamid

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CreativityBookThinkDetailsShort

I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

Andrea Thompson

RelationshipPeopleProblemLookWay

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

Rob Zombie

PeopleYouSeriousWantHardest

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Rosa Parks

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I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

Ron Pope

FunnyMusicPeopleMeThinkSay

To me, when you're at a hotel, and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way. Especially if it's not done well or not run well.

Matt Bomer

HomeMeHotelEnvironmentYouFind

We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity.

Michael Nutter

InvestmentWashingtonTaxesPay

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

Moby

LifeMusicCommunityTimeCollege

God wants us to serve willingly and obediently.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

GodServeUsWantsWillingly

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Christina Milian

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Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

Cobi Jones

EnergyHeatTwoOutBeingYour

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

LiveEasyBornGoUnknownWithin

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

Anthony Browne

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