Orhan Pamuk Quotes
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
