Orhan Pamuk Quotes
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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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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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I call him Alshon. He calls me Demaryius Thomas.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
