Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.

Alexandra Kleeman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 26, 1986

Topics

HappyWorldYouFindSometimesWay

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Jesse Jackson

LifeMysteriousDimensions

Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.

John C. Reilly

FatherMusicHeroResponsibilityMe

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

LovePeopleMeIdeasFirstI Love

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

Amor Towles

BeautifulEyeYouLookPlaceNobody

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Ron Fournier

MomentNowHumanSurprisesHonest

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

Rupert Friend

TruthEmpathyStartBelieveYou

I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.

Juan Felipe Herrera

ChangeWritingNewWantChannels

Dinner and a movie is pretty great.

Joseph Morgan

GreatDinnerPrettyMovie

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Don Lemon

SilenceDeceptionDegree

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

Dexter Fletcher

TimeChildhoodManChildMeYou

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

Debbie Reynolds

HomeThingsHerWellDidRecreate

The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not leave our Afghan partners unable to guarantee long-term security or risk Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven again.

Brian Schatz

SecurityRiskAssessmentSafeLeave

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