Elif Batuman Quotes
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper -
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
Hanya Yanagihara -
People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
Zong Qinghou -
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan -
I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
Flume -
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine -
I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
Yelawolf -
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Samuel Butler -
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
Tali Lennox -
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
Ice T -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht -
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker -
We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.
Adam D'Angelo -
I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
Ranbir Kapoor
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...is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.
Ian Paisley -
You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.
Wesley Snipes -
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon -
I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins -
Mothers need mothers. Let's be there for one another.
Christy Turlington -
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.
Elif Batuman