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
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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

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• 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

• I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Never
  • Garden

• 'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Tree
  • Green

• Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • People

• Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Live
  • Bad
  • Hate

• If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Princess

• I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Age

• 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