Dan Chaon Quotes

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

Dan Chaon

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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

Jet Li

ThinkKeyImportantYoungSpecial

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Andre Leon Talley

DownBuildUpTearPrefer

A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

Meghan Trainor

PeopleStartThinkYouNobodyOut

What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.

Ann Coulter

BabyBorderAmericanYouImmigrants

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

Lleyton Hewitt

LoveHatePeopleMeThinkYou

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

David Walliams

ProcessYouScaredBeingSomething

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

Courteney Cox

WorkMarriageTogetherYearEarly

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Chuck Close

WorkGardenWaySomethingZenLike

Play the pass at the right moment - not on a dry pitch and not hitting it hard enough. We don't have to accept it; that was a mistake - no goalkeeper should dribble in this situation.

Alisson

MomentMistakeEnoughSituationPlay

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

LifeLiveWisdomLightPeopleOwn

I still believe that a fight between two brothers should not destroy peace and harmony and bring trouble to the common man.

Sharad Pawar

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Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.

Tina Brown

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