Ali Babacan Quotes
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.
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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject - basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. - so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.
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Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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It is discouraging. But at the time same, I know it could have been worse.
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan -
Consider that the devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
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Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.
