Gary Shteyngart Quotes

I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

Gary Shteyngart

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I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

Jeremy Scott

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There's two people I would say to try to go and watch who are probably the future of tennis. One girl called Taylor Townsend, she got a wildcard from the event into Wimbledon; she's an American girl. On the men's side, there's an Australian guy called Nick Kyrgios; he's 19, and he was the number one junior in the world.

Andy Murray

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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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I write my books never thinking of an actor.

Michael Connelly

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Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

Method Man

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, 'This sure beats respectable life in England.'

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

Tony Campolo

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Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

Martti Ahtisaari

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It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

Loni Anderson

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The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

Diane Lane

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I was the singing boy in school.

Desiigner

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