Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Aleksandar Hemon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DepressionCreativityWorldSorrow

One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.

Joao Lourenco

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I'm opinionated, and I'm comfortable with confrontation. I'm very happy to say if I believe the opposite of what you think.

Jodie Whittaker

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Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.

John Dingell

GreatCountryNobodyTaxBig

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy

WomenPoliticsYouWantNervous

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

Robert Smith

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Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

Ann Demeulemeester

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I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

Russ Feingold

MarriagePeopleThoughtCareEnough

Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

Dennis Potter

PeopleEnoughKnowMoreVery

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

Douglas Rushkoff

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General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

Chief Joseph

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I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.

Cormac McCarthy

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