Orhan Pamuk Quotes
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
Orhan Pamuk
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
Karl Jaspers
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene
I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
Carey Mulligan
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle
Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
Queen Latifah
Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.
Chelsea Handler
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
Chris Hardwick
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
Orhan Pamuk