Orhan Pamuk Quotes
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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I write in a small office at home.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
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Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
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So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.
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I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
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All things are subject to decay and change.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
