I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
Jonathan Lethem
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DARRELL IRWIN The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS This is the kind of performance we expect out of Jonathan on a regular basis.
GENE PINGATORE I'm going to try my best to treat it like it's a regular game and not get too excited.
EVAN BROCK Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Mo...
GARY KRIST I don't want an alcoholic or drug addict to think he's the only one in that situation.
MINDY GEHR I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too ...
BILLY CAMPBELL She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else adm...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit whil...
BUCKY SINISTER Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
ALBERT EINSTEIN In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
JONATHAN LETHEM The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it...
JONATHAN LETHEM I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, bu...
JONATHAN LETHEM I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from be...
JONATHAN LETHEM I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape o...
JONATHAN LETHEM The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't c...
JONATHAN LETHEM Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
JONATHAN LETHEM Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
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JONATHAN LETHEM For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at bes...
JONATHAN LETHEM There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
JONATHAN LETHEM I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
JONATHAN LETHEM My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don...
JONATHAN LETHEM I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
JONATHAN LETHEM What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. No...
JONATHAN LETHEM The cars rushing below knew nothing. People in cars weren't New Yorkers anyway, they'd suffered some...
JONATHAN LETHEM what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
JONATHAN LETHEM I'm a green tea addict, though the occasional glass of red wine is nice, too.
SHILPA SHETTY I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
ADAM LAMBERT I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.
ELLIOTT GOULD He is an addict - period,
DWIGHT GOODEN Pain and consequences are motivators for an addict. You'd think jail and homelessness would be, but ...
BOB POZNANOVICH When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admi...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It's not like any other week. As coaches, we try to treat it the same, we try not to get too caught ...
JACK MCCAULEY An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am totally convinced my guardian angel is an addict because I can't find my Adderall and she is no...
SHANNON L. ALDER We’ve lost the real Jesus—or at least exchanged him for a newer, safer, sanitized, ineffectual o...
JEFFERSON BETHKE I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.
STIEG LARSSON Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulati...
BARRY HUMPHRIES For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to ...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ They don't teach you how to deal with substance abuse in seminary, and I challenge you to find one c...
ANDY ALDRICH I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
TERENCE Be An Addict to Non Addiction, Life Will Be Awesome.
ANANDHA I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a...
RICHELLE MEAD I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei...
LARRY NORMAN The Democratic Party is like an addict. They're addicted to failure.
PAUL HACKETT The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with som...
RUSSELL BRAND In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing t...
MARTIN SAGE AND SYBIL ADELMAN I try not to think about it too much. Usually if you do the other things, the little things, the one...
ANDY MCDONALD One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity act...
DAN BUETTNER My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become ...
MISTY COPELAND I wore what I normally would wear at a regular game. It wasn't too bad. I thought the weather was pe...
DAVIS DREWISKE I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Exce...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I try not to worry about the weather too much.
DAN CREWS Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipu...
NAEEM KHAN I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
LIL WAYNE A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, b...
BERTRAND PICCARD Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is an unborn, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. There cannot be any escape from what...
BUDDHA In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they...
ETHAN HAWKE It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addi...
MOBY The 3-pointers, that's what we do best. If somebody is hot, we'll try to keep going back to them. If...
CATHERINE YANCY But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. CLEMENT STONE Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was ...
AMY WEBER I'm a pretty early adopter of social media. There's a whole subculture to it. I'm smart ...
JON FAVREAU Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The last thing that I want is for Courtenay to be a financial burden on Jonathan or any other family...
CAROLYN HOWARD So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
GAVIN DEGRAW The worst thing you can do to a Juggalo is not know about their weird subculture.
ANDERS HOLM I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict...
RALPH FIENNES To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and natio...
ASHOKA JAHNAVI PRASAD In the last 10 or 12 years, we've only had one other student struck. So it's not a regular occurrenc...
ANN MOORE After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor ca...
LISA JAKUB I try to remember that it can be gone in the blink of an eye, and we never want to become complacent...
JAY DEMARCUS Any comments or suggestions President Clinton committed to the release or promised the release of Jo...
JOE LOCKHART We're ready to start talking about next year's goals. We'd like to become one of those regular teams...
AMY RYMER I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it t...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
ANNE LAMOTT I'm not the sort to settle into one place for too long. I'm too much of an individualist.
BRIAN MONTGOMERY I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLER For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
EDDIE MARSAN It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the oth...
DAVID ZUCKER He is the one guy who would try to run through a wall if I asked him and not ask any questions.
JOE GIRARDI Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.
JAMES PATTERSON I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off...
KIRSTEN DUNST I try to remind them about it. I try to appeal to their senses. I haven't had a sense of urgency wit...
GENE KATZ I'm one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLIN I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
JAMES HERBERT When buying oranges, I look for round fullness, with the bottoms not too indented. Perfect coloring ...
BARBARA REYELTS IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one ...
CHARLES INGLIS I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has c...
WERNER HERZOG I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.
DWIGHT GOODEN Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
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not have given them to such a sco...
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JONATHAN SWIFT Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.
Which ever side you think i...
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JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch...
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From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
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JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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JONATHAN MILLER For the rest,
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JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
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JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
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JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT