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Arthur Koestler Quotes

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Arthur Koestler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: September 5, 1905 - March 1, 1983

Topics

World Emotions May Metaphysical Sort

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

Work Black Student Southwest Example

I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I'm proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don't have those doors opening for us every day.

Melina Matsoukas

Women History Day Men I Am Me

I avoid listening to too many people's comments about my script. I have learned to take in what is of use. It's too frustrating looking at somebody's notes who didn't get what you were doing. If somebody says, 'This stinks, and here are all the reasons,' that's not going to help you.

Melissa Mathison

People Listening Looking Doing Help

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

Great New Jazz New Orleans Arts

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Mind Think You Body Wrong Your Body

Somebody had given me a copy of 'Hunky Dory,' which had yet to be a hit, although it was starting to percolate. I'd seen a couple of pictures of David, with his interesting hairdo and outfits, and I decided to seek him out, which wasn't difficult back then, as he was eager to do any kind of publicity.

Me Interesting Back Copy Pictures

I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.

Jose Maria Aznar

Think Advice President Going Give

I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.

Think Better Lucky Sing Just Songs

Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless.

Yourself Space Fearless You See Who

I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

Good Soul Yourself Fun Rest Someone

The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.

Daily History Experience Space Early

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Christopher Durang

Father Mother Think Thought Know

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