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 wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.
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Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
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For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
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Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.
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Making people laugh is the greatest experience.
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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.
