Orhan Pamuk Quotes
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
