Elif Batuman Quotes

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

Elif Batuman

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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Carl Honore
- World
- Writing
- Journalism
I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

Gabrielle Giffords
- World
- Community
- Best
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.

Otto Penzler
- World
- Age
- Popular
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

Haley Barbour
- Time
- American
- History
When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

G. Edward Griffin
- World
- Value
- Gold
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

Barbara Kruger
- World
- Work
- Different