Orhan Pamuk Quotes
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I used to pack a giant bag to check with every possible outfit I could think of, but now I have slimmed down my travel wardrobe.
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Heart and mind overcome all.
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For years, Trump himself was the Trump Foundation's only source of money: Between 1987 and 2006, he donated $5.4 million.
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I am grateful for the sacrifices our veterans have made to defend our freedom and prosperity.
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One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
