Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

Aleksandar Hemon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: bosniak
  • Birth: September 9, 1964

Topics

MyselfWarThoughtSurvivalSwing

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

Jody Watley

GirlPassionGrowYouMadFirst

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Stephen Gardiner

StyleAmericanOrderNecessityGrid

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

WillExposureContemptConstantThem

'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can't be this narrow - we have to stretch out the point of view.

Jay-Z

SurviveViewPoint Of ViewDramaOut

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Diane Paulus

FeelNeverDirectorAnswers

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

Douglas Coupland

LifeSometimesEverythingSomething

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Brody Armstrong

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If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Austan Goolsbee

GreatDepressionMoneyPeopleYou

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Alice Hoffman

CommunitySchoolPeopleSmallHigh

I'm lucky that I have a supportive partner who loves me when I'm bigger as well as slim.

Penny Lancaster

MePartnerLuckyBiggerWellWho

Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We're very alike; it's not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it's just that he was born 10 years later... he's a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.

Shakira

DayHappyMeBornHealthyNothing

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

Tom Barrett

Rock StarRockRightStarGoingFar

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