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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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
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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.
