Elif Batuman Quotes
Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
Elif Batuman
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
E. F. Benson
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
Gary Hamel
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
Kate Hudson
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
Ed Stoppard
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
Ira Glass
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I'm an actress, and I write, and I produce stuff. I have a guitar, and I have my knitting stuff. I have a lot of things going on; I love to not ever put all my energy into one thing fully.
Krysten Ritter
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I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!
Amanda Righetti
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Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews Band
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She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.
L. J. Smith
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Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
Elif Batuman