"What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings â€” younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older..."

-- Mohsin Hamid

#Thinking Quotes #Cities Quotes #Looks Quotes

“My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.”

Source : "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.
“The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor”
“I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.”
“[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.”
“There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.”
“I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.”

Source : "New House members of 113th Congress: K-L-M", www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.
“The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.”
“There's a big world out there. Bigger than prom, bigger than high school, and it won't matter if you were the prom queen or the quarterback of the football team or the biggest nerd. Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.”

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