Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

Hanya Yanagihara

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LonelinessHatePeopleThinkYou

Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.

John David Washington

HateLanguageFindCombat

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

Mel Gibson

LifeHappinessSacrificeJoyReward

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.

John McWhorter

LovePeopleMeBlackLovingWhite

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

John W. Foster

GodTimeFillingMere

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Alva Myrdal

FutureServiceWarToolsFirstArms

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

Sukarno

TimeGroupGroundCommonFiveFound

I have a healthy addiction to binge-watching TV.

Lucas Till

HealthyAddictionTV

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Ludivine Sagnier

NowMoviesHollywoodPersonalWill

If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it - it's not that dramatic, it's just a bit, kind of, 'Here we go, this is what we're doing today. This is sad. But we're gonna get through it.'

Josh Thomas

LiveTodayTruthSadSomeoneDoing

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Christina Rossetti

FaithFruitObedience

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Coolio

CultureImpossibleHip-HopPretty

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

Ava DuVernay

MusicArtCreativePeopleDoorNeed

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