Mustafa Akyol Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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We shared our father with the world.
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My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.
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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
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A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
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Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.
