Burhan Sonmez Quotes

Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.

Burhan Sonmez

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• Some films shouldn't be remade.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Ugly
  • Turn
  • Confident

• Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • You
  • Understand
  • Said

• I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Me

• My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Films

• Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Long
  • Cute

• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Why
  • Fate

• I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • World
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Morning

• That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

  

  Joel Salatin

• Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Long
  • Romantic

• There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Success
  • Failure

• There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Truth
  • Waiting

• 'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Character
  • Trump
  • Daily

• If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Opinion

• King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

  

  Adrian Belew
  • King

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • People
  • Warrior
  • Defeat