Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.

Hanya Yanagihara

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Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but Google's narrative worked to drive the entire story.

John Battelle

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As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Jeanne Moreau

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'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.

Steve Erickson

EnoughYouForgetEndeavorAlmost

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

Monica Johnson

GodFreedomDemocracyForgetVote

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

Michael Koryta

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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Joseph de Maistre

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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

Drew Barrymore

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Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

Deepak Chopra

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In our experience, when people make comprehensive lifestyle changes, they usually can reduce or discontinue medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, anti-hypertensives, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, nitrates, insulin, and so on.

Dean Ornish

ExperiencePeopleLifestyleChanges

If you don't have ambition, you shouldn't be alive.

Aliko Dangote

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To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

Tippi Hedren

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Next fight? If the UFC tell me, 'What do you want?' I'm going to say Tony Ferguson.

Khabib Nurmagomedov

FightMeYouSayWantTell

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