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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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 body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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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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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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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.