Orhan Pamuk Quotes
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.
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Cinema is always a political art, at the end.
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
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As of 2013, according to the World Health Organization, 35 million people were estimated to be living with HIV or AIDS globally, and 39 million have died from the disease. The epidemic of denial won, and now everyone knows there is money in the making of drugs for AIDS.
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Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
