Nazim Hikmet (Nâzım Hikmet Ran) Quotes
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
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I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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I definitely think that comedy is my niche.
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Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
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At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
