Burhan Sonmez Quotes

People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the future. But we have that beauty today, too, in the mixture of past and future. We have to save it today and we have to enjoy it today.

Burhan Sonmez

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• Past
• Beauty
• Istanbul

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• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Think
  • Dream

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Government

• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Beauty
  • Questions
  • Judaism

• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Beauty
  • Search
  • Signs

• Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Founders

• Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Life
  • Me

• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Laugh

• I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Alone

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Moral

• I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

  

  Armand Assante
  • Life
  • Live

• I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact.

  

  John Waters
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Friends

• 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Family
  • Age
  • River

• I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • School

• People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the future. But we have that beauty today, too, in the mixture of past and future. We have to save it today and we have to enjoy it today.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • People
  • Future
  • Past