Orhan Pamuk Quotes
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.
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The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.
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And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
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The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
