Orhan Pamuk Quotes
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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Regardless of the technology, we at Cisco believe that there is a need to 'connect the unconnected,' whether it is using 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi. We are working on enabling heterogeneous access across different technologies. The basic need to 'connect to unconnected' still remains.
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Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.
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I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.
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I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
