Egemen Bağış Quotes
I really don't think that Turkey has become more conservative. It just so happens that the conservatives are a lot more visible today than they were previously.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.
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I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
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I don't think we have to enter into panic.
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That's possible, but not likely. I don't think this will happen.
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I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.
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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
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Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.
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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
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It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
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I don't get her. I don't think the song or the concept is as cool as people say it is. She's supposed to be this high fashion person, but I don't think the music fits. It's not particularly edgy.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
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I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a sh*t that he looks like a f***ing turkey.
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I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes, ... We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record.
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I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
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Turkey is trying to fight with ISIS in al-Bab, in Syria, in Iraq, and our allies who have been with ISIS are not providing as much support and intelligence on this front. We have a saying Turkish. If your neighbour's house is on fire and you don't help them put it out, that fire will eventually burn your own home.
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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.
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I really don't think that Turkey has become more conservative. It just so happens that the conservatives are a lot more visible today than they were previously.
