Burhan Sonmez Quotes

Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls.

Burhan Sonmez

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• Democracy
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• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Job
  • Living

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Characters
  • Core
  • Ensemble

• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Songs

• It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Stars
  • Knowing
  • Astronomy

• The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • House
  • Success

• A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Future
  • Powerful

• All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Come
  • Relief
  • Appearances

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Country
  • America
  • Giving

• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Wise

• When I see something, I go for it.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • See
  • Something
  • Go For It

• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Father

• I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • God
  • Family
  • Friends

• The law is cruel.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Cruel

• Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Experience

• How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!

  

  Anne Frank
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Time
  • Live
  • Depression

• I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Space
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  

  John Keats

• Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Democracy