Ali Babacan Quotes
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
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Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
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After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.
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I would be the worst biologist in the world!
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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I don't want to have so many exes.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.
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My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.
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'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.
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It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.
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We at CNN are pleased and relieved to hear the announcement that these journalists have been released and this situation brought to a peaceful and amicable resolution, ... The safety of journalists is paramount to CNN, as it is to news organizations worldwide.
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...because city honours are not village honours. Like certain wines, they do not travel; carry them back to the village and you find they are dust in your hands.
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It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.
