Paul Auster Quotes

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1947

Topics

BusinessBestPeopleSayingLook

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

Jillian Michaels

FailureBetterWrongSayTryAsk

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

Joan Armatrading

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I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

Jeremy Clarkson

TimePeopleThinkLongLong Time

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.

John Holdren

ChangeSciencePeopleStartDoing

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.

Shooter Jennings

LoveTechnologyWifeMeComputers

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

Trent Reznor

EyesTimeMeThinkDownWant

The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.

Joseph Jacobs

GreatProblemsAmericaAustralia

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

Derek Fisher

BasketballFeelLivingWayOnly

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

PovertyIntellectualNeverNaive

I started watching 'Daria' when I was in college because I didn't have cable growing up. It's such a smart show with a different type of female character.

Phoebe Robinson

CharacterSmartCollegeGrowing Up

I was the captain of the pompom squad but not the cheerleading squad. There's a difference. The Peary Poms were the best in the state.

Paula Marshall

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