Orhan Pamuk Quotes
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.
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I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.
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I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
