Alejandro Amenabar Quotes

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Alejandro Amenabar

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I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.

Jim Clyburn

RacismNeverAlwaysWordUse

People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.

Jessie Cave

PeopleMeSomeoneFindingDownKnow

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.

John Lewis

FatherMotherWomenTimeMenBlack

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Robert Scheer

MoneyPeopleFreeMediaHideTalk

Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple as reading another book each month or attending a seminar each year. On the other hand, it also means acknowledging what 'average' actually is and how you, as the owner, arrive at that figure.

Michael Gerber

SimpleBookReadingBetterYearYou

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

LanguageTongueGreaterThanMuch

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

Amanda Beard

MeBabySwimmingFriendsEveryone

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Sigmund Freud

ValueDriveDegreeCertainNeurosis

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

Rob Delaney

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If you go to the gym every day, it's not really good. Your muscles get fatigued. Your vocal cords are muscles - they get burned out, they get tired, so you've got to give them the chance to recover and repair during the night.

Rob Halford

GoodDayTiredNightChanceYou

I grew up with lots of anger, frustration, and violence in my heart.

Rose Namajunas

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Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

Rudolf Steiner

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