Egemen Bağış Quotes
It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
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Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked 'Unknown,' and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in 'honoring the memory' of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.
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You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
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I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.
