Ali Babacan Quotes

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• When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Better

• 'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Stars
  • Awesome
  • Dancing

• I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Friends
  • College
  • Quiet

• The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Popular

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Think
  • Control
  • Seem

• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Trying
  • Fool
  • Said

• The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • People
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Work
  • Love
  • Bad

• I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Time
  • Think
  • Singing

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Land
  • Boxer

• My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Guy

• In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Action
  • Primitive
  • Foresight

• Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Hockey

• 'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • America
  • True
  • Crazy

• Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

  

  Comte de Lautreamont
  • Sleep

• Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy: a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one could weep because another wept.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • World
  • Alone

• I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

  

  Debra Winger
  • Live
  • Real
  • Experience

• Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Love
  • Knowledge
  • Divine

• Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

  

  Ali Babacan
  • Safety