Elif Batuman Quotes
Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.
Elif Batuman
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
Victoria Azarenka
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
Bebe Rexha
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
Jack Adams
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Drugs scared me.
Larry David
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
J. B. Pritzker
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
Daniel Berrigan
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
Eddie McClintock
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
Adam Clarke
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Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I did a TV show called 'Unit 1.' It wasn't a bad experience, but yes, the first season I didn't have a good time because I was coming from Nicolas Winding Refn films where the corners were sharp and radical, but now we had round corners.
Mads Mikkelsen
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We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.
Barack Obama
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I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.
Walter Cronkite
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Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.
Robin Thicke
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I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
Labrinth
LSD
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
Helen Keller
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.
Elif Batuman
